"I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!""

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Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

Ian Astbury

#Writing Quotes #Conversation Quotes #Said Quotes

“Phury?" "No, I'm not gay." "Don't feel like you need to hide it or anything." "I wouldn't. I'm just not." "You bi, then?”
“If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?”
“The devil tryna rip out my soul. Lost my soul.”
“I've been very passionate about storytelling ever since I was a kid. I really don't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor, and ever since I could remember, I had a really extravagant imagination.”
“Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy.”
“The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?”
“There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees Godâ€™s favor to them in life, through death and on for ever.”
“If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck.”

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