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13. Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
15. No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist
12. In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls…
16. Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with t…
11. I only planned it out till I was 28. I figured at 28, the black dress, the gutter in Paris, I had it - like a B movie of Piaf.
17. 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.
10. I look at these kids, you know, and I could be their mother, their mistress, their older woman. Some of the kids at the concerts are 15.
18. Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

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