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" I am not steeped in all that angst. I'm never going to be Sid Vicious. "

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" My best mates when I was 19 were all in their 30s. I used to go to all their house parties, and they were crazier than the guys who were 17, 18. They were so much more liberated than the people who were apparently shackle-free. "