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" I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose. "

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" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "

" I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it? "

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" A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone. "

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