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I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

David Bowie

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.
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Art Author Necessary Reading Stability Voice
It was fun to be clever.
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Clever Fun One Liner
I think the only music I didn’t listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
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Country Hold Listening Music Myself Thinking Western
I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.
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Easy heavy Myself Writing
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
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Choice Civilization Creation Style Yourself
I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.
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Myself Wife
I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
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Artist Believe Integrity Loyalty Myself People Reality Style Time
The only art I’ll ever study is stuff I can steal from.
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Art Music Myself Steal Study
It’s a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there’s a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that’s how some of us conduct our lives.
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Build Compulsion Life Live Notice Ourselves Pattern
Trust nothing but your own experience.
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Experience Independent Trust Yourself
Turn and face the strange.
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Brave Face Hard Time Inspirational Strange
Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.
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Aloud Listening Secret Thinking
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
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Body Challenge Death Disturb Life Yourself
I’ve come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.
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Ideas Myself Realization Time
I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
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Fame Reward Thinking Yourself
Rock has always been the devil’s music… I believe that rock & roll is dangerous… I feel that we’re only heralding something even darker than ourselves.
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Believe Darkness Devil Music Ourselves

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