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Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.
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I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.
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We approached Yahoo and Jerry Yang and said that Hadoop is going to continue to be popular, and as it does, more and more of your team is going to get poached by other companies and come under pressure to leave. This way, you can control your own fate and destiny.
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I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.
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I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will.
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American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.
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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.
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I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.
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Today everything's a conflict of interest.
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I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.
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If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.
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I had every intention of 'Bloodflowers' being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we'd ever done, but I wasn't sure we could pull it off.
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You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.
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People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.
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We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye.
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I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.
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We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?
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There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.
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I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
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I like a bit of eye candy like anyone but to have it solely about the eye candy and have it fall into a category so rigidly as well is wrong.
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It's not really my problem if they think I'm weird.
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You're only half the man that I am, and I have half the brain that you do.
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What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked at or being a phenomenon and that's what everyone gets wrong. You can't consciously create something that's important, it's a combination of chemistry, conditions, the environment, everything.
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The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.