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“Kurt Cobain is one of the reasons I started doing music because I just loved to watch them rock out.” quote by James Arthur — Download Open image

“Kurt Cobain is one of the reasons I started doing music because I just loved to watch them rock out.”

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Me and my mum didn't see eye-to-eye for a lot of years, and I've never really felt connected with my dad, because he wasn't…

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I'm a mix; I'm sure some of my Canadian friends find me very American, both in person and on the page.

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I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out loud, so…

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I'd like to think that maybe the average person is rational, and they realise that I'm not this crazy monster that, at times, I've…

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I had nothing and lived in the most insignificant place.

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It can feel like your whole world is caving in on you, and if you don't speak about it, it gets worse. You have…

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If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe.…

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And treating poetry as a performing art emphasizes its ephemerality. A printed poem can be endlessly reprinted, photocopied, scanned, uploaded, cut and pasted - but a performance, even if somebody's there with a video camera, is one time only: the audience experiences something that won't exist when the performance is over, and which won't ever be reproduced in exactly the…

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I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and depending on…

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Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.

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People were telling me it was refreshing I was real because previous 'X Factor' winners were too afraid to say anything. I decided to…

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Everyone wrote me off, including me.

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I really can't live without my In-N-Out burgers. Honestly, I can't. Even when I'm doing the whole no-carb thing occasionally, I make an exception for these. They're too delicious to count.

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You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's happy. I am, at 74. Some people like doing it, but I never was much for that, anyway. It's a lot of work. So the only thing I miss about all of it is the camaraderie…

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