"When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band."
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"Rather be dead than cool."
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"Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there."
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"Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock."
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"I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships."
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"I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own."
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"Oh well, whatever, nevermind."
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"She eyes me like a pisces."
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"It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child."
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"Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art."
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"I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole."
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"I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else."
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"Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock."
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"Zits are beauty marks."
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"It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings."
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"I'm not like them, but I can pretend."
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"Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all."
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"No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you."
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"We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music."
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"I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male."
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