"Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother."
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"Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan."
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"Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain."
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"The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence."
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"When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way."
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"The music business doesn't interest me anymore."
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"I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be."
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"I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities."
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"The gay people know where I'm at. Straight people may not know where I'm at, but they find it kind of interesting when they show up and see what is sitting around them."
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"I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure."
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"People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing."
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"I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run."
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"When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment."
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"For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about."
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"You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it's called bad luck."
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"And I feel just like Jesus' son"
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"There are problems in these times, but none of them are mineI'm beginning to see the light"
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"Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry."
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"She never ever lost her head even when she was giving head."
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"As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside."
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