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I Suppose For Me As An Artist It Wasn't Always Just About Expressing My Work; I Really Wanted, More Than Anything Else, To Contribute In Some Way To The Culture That I Was Living In. It Just Seemed Like A Challenge To Move It A Little Bit Towards The Way I Thought It Might Be Interesting To Go.

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I Suppose For Me As An Artist It Wasn't Always Just About Expressing My Work; I Really Wanted, More Than Anything Else, To Contribute In Some Way To The Culture That I Was Living In. It Just Seemed Like A Challenge To Move It A Little Bit Towards The Way I Thought It Might Be Interesting To Go.

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Turn And Face The Strange.

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You Can Neither Win Nor Lose If You Don't Run The Race

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Speak In Extremes, It'll Save You Time.

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Never Bored, So I'll Never Get Old

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