"You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition."
"There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person."
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Source: 1979 In the NewYork Times,13 May.
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