"The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics."

-- Al Seckel

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“I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.”

Source : "Bassey is back". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2009.
“Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.”
“I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is a bit self-obsessed. I don't know if I really have a persona, in that respect. I want to just make the music and hide away.”
“The entertainment is in the presentation.”
“It is a fool's sheep that breaks loose twice.”
“The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.”
“Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.”
“To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.”

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