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"I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching."
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"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."
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"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"
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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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