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Humanity is a virus.

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Ian Curtis was a young genius.

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“When order is lost, time spits.”

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I've discovered the joys of happiness.

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Change comes from reflection.

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I was born in Manchester, England.

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I refer to myself as 'we.'

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And when in doubt, be extreme.

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Lady Jaye and I always thought black eyes were really sexy.

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Once you have a hit, it just becomes another old song.

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Everyone knows that when things are out of balance, things go wrong.

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I have no idea what's going on in the fashion industry.

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“I'll never give up being into trying to change the world.”

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Brian Jones had this really ethereal atmosphere around him.

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

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All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

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I guess I'm dedicated to breaking every inherited mould I can in my private life.

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Everything in our world tends to be built on either/ors, and either/ors inevitably make enemies.

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Change is not a linear process; it's an all-encompassing process, and it's alive in different ways.

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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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It turns out that there's a huge community of African-American musicians whose main influence is Throbbing Gristle.

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You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It's all up for grabs.

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We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.

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I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.

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England was very frustrating in the Seventies for anyone who was trying to wake up. It was visible in punk, in clothes,…

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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 good thing about people who are corporate is that they're stupid. So they can be touching something that's precious or radical…

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Even if the world outside is destroying itself and fragmented and paranoid and fearful, the job of the artist is to embrace…

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I would experiment with porridge - make porridge pancakes, fry porridge - and so friends started calling me 'Porridge.' But I got…

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Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot,…

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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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In the old days, maybe we'd come across Captain Beefheart, buy a record, go, 'This is great!' and notice how his music…

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A real New Yorker is always someone who came here from somewhere else to avoid some kind of persecution, often sexual-preference based,…

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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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Even as a teenager we got interested in the Beats, Dada, and Surrealism, and so on. What drew us to those was…

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Life and art are inseparable.

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A band can be so much more than just a way to play songs.

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I've had all my teeth replaced with solid gold replicas of the originals.

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

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

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