Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.
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I was going to try to evoke the atmosphere that excited me without trying to actually depict it, ... The main idea was to talk about people for whom poetry was the highest value. ... I just knew I wanted to talk about this kind of way of life, and then it occurred to me to do the Rimbaud-Verlaine thing.Richard Hell
I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldn't see where to go with it that wouldn't be fatal.
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There are characters in it that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas,
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When I do dig down, I'm very irritated underneath, ... Why can't I just write a book about taking a walk and having a cup of coffee It kind of annoys me about myself. If I could do it differently, I would. It's not some kind of principle. It's just in my nature somehow.
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It's great for me to move on from that, ... And I'm glad I survived, to be able to.
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