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" I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream. "

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" I'd still stand in line all day to get into an AC/DC show, because that was the one show when I was younger that kind of changed my life. Because it was a little wrong. I think I was 14 or 15, first concert without the parents, you know, and they were all worried because we were going to an AC/DC show, and it was an amphitheater. "

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" I have a huge chip on my shoulder. "

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