"I feel like I'm more of the underdog, which is kind of nice."
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"I think that I'm always open to any kind of project."
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"As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions."
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"The most inspiring thing for me about Calvin Klein was how subversive the advertising's message was. That's what drove me in my creative process and also in my creating now. The new advertising campaign is Calvin Klein the way I see it today. It's also bringing back the kind of subversive element that I always saw in Calvin Klein's campaigns."
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"In the office, I actually act quite demented the whole day. Like Monty Python. That's my favorite kind of humor. My assistants sometimes ask me to leave."
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"I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind. I don't like that style whereby you kind of stitch people up. But the deeper thing is that I just find these people so impressive and admirable."
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"For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it's never bothered me."
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"I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I do it when I’ve not got anything better to do – and even then I often do nothing instead."
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"I don't like my books being defined by their "about"-ness. So now the subtitle has just become a kind of strap-line on the cover."
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"I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films."
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"I don't ever think about the utility of fiction. I don't believe in it or certainly don't require anybody to consider it. A novel or short story might be useful to a reader in all kinds of ways, many of which no writer would ever foresee, which is a good thing."
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"It's the hardening of these narratives that makes peace so difficult. If each side can see the narrative, the claims that the other has, then there is a much more likely possibility of making a resolution. But what I see is the opposite. There is a total disclaiming of the validity of the other side, and talk that I find really unsettling, the kind of chatter you get from ultra-right Israelis and Hamas is of annihilation. In that kind of dialogue, there's no way to move toward peace."
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"Usually the song is totally done. I'll do absolutely everything, backing vocals - everything - but in gibberish. A lot of times its based on the mumblings that I sing. Even though I sing in gibberish, it kind of makes sense."
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"We're kind of a weird band anyway, where we never fit in with indie or pop. We never really sat with either of those genres fully."
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"I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence."
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"I'm allowing myself every opportunity, every tool that every other artist should allow themselves to use. If anybody expects me to not use certain language or certain words, like I have some kind of penalty restriction, it's completely unrealistic."
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"Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's."
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"There is a kind of sympathy with the Americans who are looked upon as liberators."
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"If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language."
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"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."
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