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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
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Songs
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
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Art
Life
Dream
Balance
May
Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
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England
Horses
Pretty
Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
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Dream
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
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Suffering
Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
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Women
Being
Girls
Writer
In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
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Thought
Fact
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.
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Time
Language
Writing
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
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Power
Work
People
Fools
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
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Work
Artist
Fact
Freedom
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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Desire
Sadness
First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
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First
When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
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Poetry
Thought
People
Duty
My mother answers all my fan mail.
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Mother
Answers
Mail
Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
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Paris