"There's a great relationship between pop music and the way the body could be seen from the inside - when I was singing or listening to music I would change shape in my head, becoming all kinds of things and people. Music is a way of making your body."

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Source : "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

Jenny Hval

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“The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.”
“One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.”
“I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.”

Source : Alan Sugar (2015). “Unscripted: My Ten Years in Telly”, p.210, Pan Macmillan
“Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of my car on the road back to San Francisco. The next night the glass window in the tailgate (the back window) was shot out (300 miles removed from the first shooting)...The late Arthur T. Harris, MD, was threatened by two men with assassination if he continued to use Laetrile.”
“Language is the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance mutual understanding may in fact hinder it; our instrument becomes our burden”
“Nobody will ever love you quite the way you want them to. You just have to let them do their best.”
“What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.”
“The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.”

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