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The body is simply the suitcase that carries us around.

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What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way…

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I am so sick and tired of being told what I'm supposed to look like!

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Pleasure is a cultural weapon. Use it wisely.

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We should always be looking for the unity in things instead of the differences.

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Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

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I'm not a man trapped in a woman's body. I'm a brain trapped in a human body.

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When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.

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I always felt that everything that happened was incredibly exhilarating and massively puzzling at the same time. I can even remember, when…

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“In order to do something that seems new, you have to strip away everything that's traditional, take away all the things that…

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Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not…

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And when in doubt, be extreme.

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We were already, in 1981, bemoaning the fact that people were using certain accessorised ideas and images that they connected with us…

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The great irony was that, while I was being portrayed as a monster, I was in Khatmandu with my children, doing soup…

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With Thobbing Gristle, that era from '75 to '81 was a period when the politics of the time demanded anger and rage.

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People say, ''I'm a woman trapped in a man's body'' or ''I'm a man trapped in a woman's body,'' but I say…

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Why is there no cure for cancer? Because the medical industry doesn't want one! And the pharmaceutical industry doesn't want one! Because…

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All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

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I think we can only ultimately change the world by example and by fearlessly embracing what could happen.

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It has always been my belief that creation, the making of 'art' in any medium or combination of mediums, is a holy…

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The punk rockers said, 'Learn three chords and form a band.' And we thought, 'Why learn any chords?' We wanted to make…

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My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

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All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

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The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The…

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Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key.

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