"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
"I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience."
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Source: Solipsist. Book by Henry Rollins, 1998.
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