"Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail."
"You can take a picture of New York and one person looking at it will think it looks really depressing, frightening; and someone else will look at it and think of all the fun things you can do in New York. I think songs are kinda like that."
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Source: Prozac Nation. Book by Elizabeth Wurtzel, 1994.
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