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" Take a walk on the wild side. "
Lou Reed
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" But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but. "
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" I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says. "
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" My God is rock'n'roll. "
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" In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle. "
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" These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible. "
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" I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs. "
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