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"The only way to really know anything is if you taste it for yourself, whether it's me or your friends or just the world. You can't leave it up to the media, to magazines, to TV, to MTV to feed you life—it's somebody's corporate fiction."
"Sensitivity isn't about being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom."
"I have no advice for anybody; expect to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate."
"New York permeates every aspect of the media and art, therefore, sooner or later, it's there that you find yourself. When I was still living in California the people that fascinated me were always from New York. I was tired of being on the west coast because I felt I didn't belong; I could never be tired of New York. But here there's also a lot of fear. It's difficult for a woman in this city. Damnably difficult. It makes me angry. If women wear something that's even minutely sexy, they feel such a lot of stares that even a simple walk through the streets becomes difficult. There's a lot of anger and tension between the sexes, out on the streets. But there's also a lot of romanticism in the air. It's the city of hate, but also the city of love."
"If I wasn't able to do this, I think I would really lay down and die. Music comes from a very primal, twisted place. When a person sings, their body, their mouth, their eyes, their words, their voice says all these unspeakable things that you really can't explain but that mean something anyway. People are completely transformed when they sing; people look like that when they sing or when they make love. But it's a weird thing—at the end of the night I feel strange, because I feel I've told everybody all my secrets."
"I like the way that songs sort of have light, and sort of travel around despite you. It's good. It helps to have songs that you love, that you can be inside. It's good. It's part of the invention"
Anyone who doesn't have Jeff Buckley's "Grace", should get it right away. You won't be quite the same again.
