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We must embrace unity, not separation - sharing, go back to small, caring communities. Unity, not separation, is what has to happen.

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My father enlisted at the age of 17. He lied about his age because he wanted to ride the fastest motorbikes, which…

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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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'Pagan Day' was Alex Fergusson's idea. It was him that encouraged me to start making music again and start Psychic TV.

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My mind jumbles things, reassembles them, and plays with words without even being asked.

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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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My father gave me a copy of 'Seven Years in Tibet,' and that's what turned me on to Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.

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Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing 'Satisfaction' every concert. That would drive me insane.

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Industrial culture? There has been a phenomena; I don't know whether it's strong enough to be a culture. I do think what…

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All the people at university were very aristocratic - except me, because I was on scholarship. And everyone there voluntarily wore suits…

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I think one of the gorgeous things about TG is that we will go from something amazingly serious and important and significant…

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There's a moment for everybody when you look at that picture of Jesus in the church and think, 'This doesn't totally make…

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Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with…

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People have become obsessed with the greed of celebrity and self-branding and wanting to be known and recognized and succeed in some…

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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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We all fall into biological and mental habits. It's an easy way for us to navigate day-to-day work and life, but it…

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

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When Lady Gaga wears a meat dress, it's meant to be controversial, but then it turns into money, and it's all fine.

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We don't agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.

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The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

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In the art world, sentimentality and intimacy and the emotive side of lives are considered very uncool. There's nervousness around intimacy.

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Everyone is telling the truth all of the time... well, it's just that times change.

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There is no distinction between reverence for existence and our senses and/or apathy.

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To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman,…

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The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of…

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If we confound and break up the proposed unfolding the world impresses upon us, we can give ourselves the space to consider…

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I was very good friends with Ian Curtis from Joy Division. In fact, I was the last person he spoke with before…

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A lot of the conceptualists and the prestige galleries are debasing themselves in presentations which have little else to them but the…

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the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

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After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather…

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Writing is a recording that you can cut up and reassemble. Sound is something you can cut up and reassemble. Film, video…

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I think, with TG, in our own ways, we have been committed to the idea of evolution on some level and change…

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