"I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases....."

-- Pablo Neruda

#Flower Quotes #Vases Quotes #Spurs Quotes

“I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.”
“How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.”
“I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.”
“I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I thought it was ideal that anyone could just put together a group and make it work. Then, of course, it became a little more detailed after starting it and realizing that it was something serious, not just a one-off situation. I had to put a lot more into it. Also I did it to get a lot of things out of my system, things that had been put there while I was growing up in my family. A sort of exorcizing of demons.”
“I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way.”
“And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got two choices.Â One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever.Â Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.”
“It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.”
“I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.”

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