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The New Fashion Is To Talk About The Most Private Parts Of Your Life; Other Fashion Is To Repent Of Your Excesses And To Criticize The Drugs That Made You Happy In The Other Times.

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Mick Jagger

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The New Fashion Is To Talk About The Most Private Parts Of Your Life; Other Fashion Is To Repent Of Your Excesses And To Criticize The Drugs That Made You Happy In The Other Times.

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I'm Interested In Feedback And Learning What People Want. It's A Tricky Thing For Me When I Do A Set List. You Get Bored Doing The Same Songs. Let's Say We Do One Ballad In Two Hours, And It's "wild Horses." If You Say, I'm Tired Of That, Let's Try Something Less Well Known, And Then You're Out There Stumbling Through This Song You Just Relearned At Sound Check, And You Realize People Probably Want "wild Horses" Instead Of This. You Do Need To Do Some Songs That Aren't So Well Known. The Question Is How Many? I'm Open To People Posting Their Requests.

I Came Into Music Just Because I Wanted The Bread. It's True. I Looked Around And This Seemed Like The Only Way I Was Going To Get The Kind Of Bread I Wanted.

There's Hundreds Of Different Ways Of Writing Songs.

I Think People Are Afraid To Express Their Opinions Half The Time.

That's One Of The Good Things About A Lot Of The Young British Bands, They Are Mixing All Styles Of Music. I Think That's Very Good Because That's Very Now.

I Don't Watch Much Espn. Unless They Have Soccer On.

The Music's Rehearsed A Lot. All People Think About Is, They Think, In Rock 'n' Roll, They Get The Music Off Right And They Think It's Okay Standing, Looking Macho. Well, It's Not. That's Boring. If You Want To Be A Performer You've Got To Do A Lot More Work Than That.

If You're Really On Some Heavily Addictive Drug, You Think About The Drug, And Everything Else Is Secondary. You Try And Make Everything Work, But The Drug Comes First.

Well, Don't We All Feel Like Jumping To The End Of The World Sometimes?

I Really Don't See Myself Being Apart From Music. I Like Doing Lots Of Different Things. I've Been Involved In Film For Quite A Long Time And I Just Like Doing Film.

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham Has Just Published The Story Of Her Life. I Confess That It Is Not In My Reading Table.

I Got Nasty Habits; I Take Tea At Three.

I've Managed To Avoid Tattoos So Far.

Rock 'n' Roll And Playing Live Is Very Addictive. But You Have To Really Be Careful, Because You Don't Want To Do It All The Time. It's Like When You Are Young And You Think If You Are Not Having Sex You're Wasting Your Time. But As You Get Older You Realise Everything Has Its Place. It's The Same Thing With Performing.... Performing Is A Great Thing To Do But You Don't Want To Have To Be Doing It Every Night.

Writing A Song Is Like - You're Writing A Song All The Time. It's Just When It Pops Out. It's Been There All The Time. It's Not Something That Suddenly You Do It. It's Always There. Suddenly, It's In The Right Mixture Inside You To Come Out. Usually When You're Writing On The Piano Or A Guitar, You Don't Write In Lyrics, On Their Own. To Me It's Very Boring.

If You Get To Be A Really Big Headliner, You Have To Be Prepared For People Throwing Bottles At You In The Night.

A Lot Of Times Songs Are Very Much Of A Moment, That You Just Encapsulate. They Come To You, You Write Them, You Feel Good That Day, Or Bad That Day.

I Read The Most Extravagant Things About People Who Suffer And Depress Because Of Things Written About Them.

I Was Having A Bit Of Trouble. I Wasn't In A Good Relationship. Or I Was In Too Many Bad Relationships. I Had So Many Girlfriends At That Point. None Of Them Seemed To Care They Weren't Pleasing Me Very Much. I Was Obviously In With The Wrong Group.

Bad Relationship

Good Relationship

I Think, Like Most People, My Moral Values Tend To Be Pretty Fuzzy.

People Also Like Partnerships Because They Can Identify With The Drama Of Two People In Partnership. They Can Feed Off A Partnership, And That Keeps People Entertained. Besides, If You Have A Successful Partnership, It's Self-sustaining.

I Didn't Want To Make Teenage Comedies, And I Didn't Want To Make Really Trashy Films. I Wanted To Make Films That Were A Bit Challenging.

The Only Performance That Makes It, That Really Makes It, That Makes It All The Way, Is The One That Achieves Madness.

The Grown-up World Was A Very Ordered Society In The Early '60s, And I Was Coming Out Of It. America Was Even More Ordered Than Anywhere Else. I Found It Was A Very Restrictive Society In Thought And Behavior And Dress.

People Have This Obsession. They Want You To Be Like You Were In 1969. They Want You To, Because Otherwise Their Youth Goes With You. It's Very Selfish, But It's Understandable.

I Don't Like Drugs. I Think Cocaine Is A Very Bad, Habit-forming Bore. It's About The Most Boring Drug Ever Invented.

I Don't Think People Care About The Mechanics Of Songwriting.

They're So Boring. They're So Pathetic, All Those Journalists. Most Of Them Are. Most Of Those Kind That Write Gossip Stuff, And Most Of It's Gossip. Things Are Just Invented About Your Personal Life And You Just Have To Take That. It's Bullshit. People Believe It, Though. They Just Believe Everything They Read.

I Don't Really Mind Criticism In Music Or In Shows And Stuff Like That At All. I Mean, It Doesn't Really Worry Me Even If It's Like Out Of Place. At Least It's Relevant.

For Some People It's Real Therapy To Talk To Journalists About Their Private Lives And Inner Thoughts. But I Would Rather Keep Something To Myself.

Movies In This Country, Its Very Complicated, And We Could Bang On About It Forever, But The French Movie Industry Is Very Different Because Its Very Obviously French.

When You Start A New Project, No Matter If It's A Movie Like Enigma Or An Album Like Goddess, You Are Always Learning Something. While I Search, I Find Something New.

Goddess Was Made In My Home In France. The Material Retained An Integrity Whit It Would Have Lost In Los Angeles Studio.

I Don't Really Like Using Guns Too Much, You Know, Even For Sport.

Iraq Has Lost 5 Percent Of Its Population, A Number That In The U.s. Would Equal 14 Million People.

I Don't Want To Be A Rock Star All My Life. I Couldn't Bear To End Up Like Elvis Presley In Las Vegas With All Those Housewives And Old Ladies Coming In With Their Handbags.

I Can't Get No Satisfaction.

I Don't Think There's Anything Wrong With Having Sex, You Know. At Any Age.

It's Okay To Let Yourself Go, Just As Long As You Let Yourself Back.

I Don't Believe In Astrology. It's A Lot Of Crap. I Just Think That's Another Thing You Should Throw Out The Window. Mysticism. Cheap. It's Amazing That People Still Hang On To That After All These Years.

I Don't Believe In Original Melodies. There Are Only So Many Computations Of Eight Notes.

I Think That People Taking Drugs Occasionally Are Great. I Think There's Nothing Wrong With It. But If You Do It The Whole Time, You Don't Produce As Good Things As You Could.

I Don't Know If Rock Is Dying. I Wouldn't Want To Say That, But The World Does Change. Nothing Stays The Same.

I'm Not The Businessman. I Don't Deal With The Business At All. Not Anymore. Occasionally, Every Four Years Or Five Years, They Tell Me I've Run Out Of Money, I Have To Go And Make Some More.

Taking Drugs On A Recreation Level Is One Thing. But Taking Them While You're Working On A Stage Is, I Don't Think It Was That Great. It's The Control Factor. And The Thing About Being On Stage, You Really Want To Feel That You're Sort Of In Control A Lot. It's Not A Place Where You Want To Be Out Of Control.

I Prefer To Live In A Rented House. No Ties. Nothing Around My Neck. Just The Minimum Kind Of Bare Comforts Of Home.

I Never Really Studied Business In School. I Kind Of Wish I Had, But How Boring Is That?

There Is Something I Like About Talking To Journalists That Really Goes Beyond Promotion Because You Aren't Just Talking To The Journalist, But You Are Talking Through Them To People Who Presumably Are Fans Of The Rolling Stones. The Interviews Give You A Chance To Say A Few Things And Maybe Clear Up Some Of The Things People Read About The Band.

I Don't Hate Journalists. You Can't Hate A Class Of People. It's Wrong To Say That. But I Do Think They're A Bit Like Poison. Never Trust Them. You Can't Trust Them As A Class Of People. It's Their Job Not To Be Trusted.

It's Hard To Believe That You Did So Many Drugs For So Long. That's What I Find Really Hard. And Didn't Really Consider It. It Was Eating And Drinking And Taking Drugs And Having Sex. It Was Just Part Of Life.

In England You're Skewered On The Altar Of Pop Culture If You Become Pretentious.

The Past Is A Great Place And I Don't Want To Erase It Or To Regret It, But I Don't Want To Be Its Prisoner Either.

When We Heard We Were Topping The Bill Over James Brown We Couldn't Believe It. We Tried For Two Days To Get It Changed Round - I Mean You Can't Follow An Act Like That.

It's Only Rock And Roll.

All Dancing Is A Replacement For Sex.

There's No Great Technical Expertise In Being A Movie Producer.

The Terrible Attack In Manhattan Has Given Place To A Burst Of Patriotism In The United States.

It's A Real Buzz, Even In Front Of 20 People, To Make A Complete Fool Of Yourself. But People Seemed To Like It. And The Thing Is, If People Started Throwing Tomatoes At Me, I Wouldn't Have Gone On With It.

He Stole My Music But He Gave Me My Name.

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I Don't Want To Be My Extravert Self All The Time.

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Patriotism Is An Instant Reaction That Fades Away When The War Starts.

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Of Course, I Do Occasionally Arouse Primeval Instincts, But I Mean, Most Men Can Do That. They Can't Do It To So Many. I Just Happen To Be Able To Do It To Several Thousand People. It's Fun To Do That.

Acting Is Mostly Interpretive. They Use Different Parts Of You, And Different Sides Of You, And Different So-called Talents.

I'd Done A Very Long Project On Bridges To Babylon. I Was On The Road For Ages With That. When I Came Off The Road, I Thought, The Next Thing I Want To Do On My Own.

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Lets Drink To The Hard Working People Lets Drink To The Salt Of The Earth

My Mother Has Always Been Unhappy With What I Do. She Would Rather I Do Something Nicer, Like Be A Bricklayer.

I Have To Get Up The Fitness Level, Sing A Lot, Practice, Get In The Mood, And Generally Do Lots Of Rehearsal. Get Your Body And Mind Ready.

Boys Were A Very Essential Part Of Rock & Roll. The Girls Were More Onlookers.

Americans Get Very Simple Explanations Of What Happens To Them.

It's Heartening To Return To Live Music, Heartening For People Like Me In A Band. It's A Very Traditional Thing To Return To. It Re-validates The Original Form That We Fell In Love With.

I Was Never That Interested In Business, To Be Honest. I Do The Minimal Amount Of Business As Possible Because I'm Not Actually Interested In It As A Thing. But Some People Are Interested In It, And There's Nothing Wrong With That.

I Am Not Very Conscious Of The Figures Of Speech That I Use.

I Love America, But I Can't Spend The Whole Year Here. I Can't Afford The Taxes.

The Elusive Nature Of Love... It Can Be Such A Fleeting Thing. You See It There And It's Just Fluttering And It's Gone.

You Don't Have To Bathe Every Day To Look Clean. It's Just An Illusion.

Rock Has To Absorb Other Rhythmic Forms, Because The Underlying Rhythm Of Music Changes With Fashion, And People Like To Move Differently, And The Underlying Rhythms Have To Be The Ones That People Want To Dance To.

People Have Different Personalities When They're Drunk Or Take Heroin, Or Whatever Drugs.

The Beatles Were So Big That It's Hard For People Not Alive At The Time To Realize Just How Big They Were.

Dandelions Don't Tell No Lies.

I Don't Think That Being In A Full-time Relationship Is Necessarily For Everybody All Of The Time. It's Not Necessarily Some State Of Grace.

Polarization Affects Families And Groups Of Friends. Its A Paralyzing Situation. A Civil War Of Opinion.

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I Should Think That Being My Old Lady Would Be All The Satisfaction Or Career Any Woman Needs.

We Have Recorded Songs On The Same Day That Were Released Years Later In Other Albums.

If You're The Singer In The Band, You Always Get More Attention Than Anyone Else.

You Don't Always Do The Same Things You've Done The Night Before. That's What Makes Playing Live So Interesting As Opposed To Being In The Studio.

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Everyone In The Movie Industry Wants To Win An Oscar. I Don't Think That's Why You Make Movies. But Winning An Oscar Is Not Just About Making A Great Movie, Unfortunately. It's Also Having A Good Oscar Campaign.

I Enjoy Doing Different Kinds Of Things. I Just Enjoy Being Not Tied Too Much. I Feel That I'm Tied To Myself As A Kind Of Traditional Musician And A Singer, And The History That I Have Ties Me Down.

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I Have Never Wanted To Give Up Performing On Stage, But One Day The Tours Will Be Over.

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Lose Your Dreams And You Might Lose Your Mind.

You Have To Sing Every Day So You Can Build Up To Being, You Know, Amazingly Brilliant

Country Music... Doesn't Bend Notes In The Same Way, So I Suppose It's Very English, Really. Even Though It's Been Very Americanized, It Feels Very Close To Me, To My Roots, So To Speak.

Something That You Can't Play In Your Kitchen Is Rap. It Is Done In Your Neighbour's Kitchen.

It's Like Everyone I Have Dinner With, I'm Having An Affair With. Who Was It I Met The Other Day? Minnie Driver! She Seems Charming, But That's The Only Time I've Met Her.

My Secrets Must Be Poetic To Be Believable.

Keeping Secrets

I Didn't Really Like Being At College. It Wasn't Like It Was Oxford And Had Been The Most Wonderful Time Of My Life. It Was Really A Dull, Boring Course I Was Stuck On.

Starting Off In Music, The Purpose Of It Was Not To Become Like Well Known On The Street And Be Famous. You Know, I Didn't Even Think About That Part Of Being Famous. Famous For Making Records, Yes, But Famous Face In A Woman's Magazine, I Never Thought Of That. I Didn't Want That.

I Like To Have A Peek, See What The Audience Is Doing During The Opening Act, Because It Gives You A Clue And Gives You A Good Feeling Of Where You Are - The Air Can Be Different In Different Places.

I Wasn't Understanding Enough About Drug Addition. No One Seemed To Know Much About Drug Addiction. Things Like Lsd Were All New. No One Knew The Harm. People Thought Cocaine Was Good For You.

I Haven't Had The Time To Plan Returning To The Scene Because I Haven't Left It.

Thanks To Everyone In Israel For The Wonderful Welcome. It Was A Great Show And We'll Remember It Forever.

You Can't Always Get What You Want, But If You Try Sometimes, You Might Find, You Get What You Need.

I Don't Want To Be Singing Satisfaction When I'm 40.

I Wasn't Taking So Many Drugs That It Was Messing Up My Creative Processes. It Was A Very Good Period, 1968 - There Was A Good Feeling In The Air. It Was A Very Creative Period For Everyone.

I Don't Find It Easy Dealing With People With Drug Problems. It Helps If You're All Taking Drugs, All The Same Drugs.

Anyone Taking Heroin Is Thinking About Taking Heroin More Than They're Thinking About Anything Else. That's The General Rule About Most Drugs.

I Don't Like Being Completely Isolated. I Need The Energy From Other People.

Many Americans Have No Idea Of What Has Been The Foreign Policy Of Their Country. If You Don't Know About Something, You Can't Understand What Is Going On.

People Don't Bother To Check With Anything Anymore. They Just Like To Speculate In Print. We Like Fact-checking!

Killing For Ideas Is The Most Dangerous Form Of Killing At All. Being Willing To Die For Your Ideas Rather Than Your Country Is Another Concept, But Dying For An Idea, Like In Religion, Is Absurd.

Americans Are Funny People: First You Shock Them, Then They Put You In A Museum.

You Can't Always Get What You Want.

I Don't Spend Money On Anything. I Don't Collect Anything. I Don't Spend It On Furniture.

Boys, As Far As England Was Concerned, Were Always The Hard Core. And You Just Know The Guys Like It. They Want To Be You. Some Might Be Attracted To You Without Knowing It.

I Suppose You Do Think About The Time That's Allotted To You More Than When You Were Younger. The Mortality Thing Obviously Has A Stronger Pull For You. It's An Imminent Truth; It's Not Necessarily A Bad Thing. You Realize - Much Earlier Than My Age Now - That You Won't Be Able To Play For England's Football Team, Just To Take A Really Crass Example. So You Can't Have That Life Again. Unless You Believe In Reincarnation Or Whatever. Reincarnation? That's A Whole Other Question. I Find People Who Talk About That Sort Of Thing In Interviews Idiotic. And I Don't Want To Go Down With Them.

Biographies Of British Pop Celebrities Are Terrible.

You Have To Realize That Everyone In A Band Is All More Or Less Together, And Everyone Has Their Own Niche, And Some People Lead In Some Ways, And Some People Lead In Others.

It's Not Selling Out, It Is Called Making Lots Of Money.

Americans Shocked Me By Their Behavior And Their Narrow-mindedness.

Narrow Mindedness

I Remember When I Was Very Young, I Read An Article By Fats Domino Which Has Really Influenced Me. He Said, 'you Should Never Sing The Lyrics Out Very Clearly.

I Would Hate To Say As A Non-african-american Person That It Would Be Wrong For A Black Person To Direct White People In A Movie. Wouldn't That Be Awful Of Me To Say That? The Only Sympathizing Thing I Might Say For People That Want To [grumble] Is That A Filmmaker Should Have An Understanding For The Place Where The People You're Portraying Are Coming From.

I Love Country Music, But I Find It Very Hard To Take It Seriously. I Also Think A Lot Of Country Music Is Sung With The Tongue In Cheek, So I Do It Tongue In Cheek.

Normally I Am Not So Violent. Everything Comes From The Question: Where Will I Die? It Is A Strong Concern.

You've Got To Have Fresh Wardrobe. You Can't Just Go Out There Looking Like You Did Last Time. That Helps Your Transformation.

Thank You For Leaving Us Alone But Giving Us Enough Attention To Boost Our Egos.

People Get Very Thoughtful When They Are In Cars. I No Longer Care For Cars. I Don't Collect Them.

You Have To Write A Song Around This Specific Character Or To Enhance A Specific Scene. A Lot Of Other Craft Goes On.

I Am Pleased The Ministry Of Culture Is Protecting The Morals Of Expatriate Bankers And Their Girlfriends.

Have I Turned Into A Motorized Preacher? We Spend So Much Time In Cars That If You Don't Try To Get Some Experiences Out Of It, You Can Go Crazy.

I Think It's Very Important That You Have At Least Some Sort Of Inner Thing You Don't Talk About. That's Why I Find It Distasteful When All These Pop Stars Talk About Their Habits.

I See Songwriting As Having To Do With Experience, And The More You've Experienced, The Better It Is. But It Has To Be Tempered, And You Just Must Let Your Imagination Run.

I Am Conservative With A Small 'c.' It's Possible To Be Conservative In Fiscal Policy, And Tolerant On Moral Issues Or Questions Of Freedom Of Expression.

No Matter What Johnny Rotten And Sid Vicious Do, They Can't Be More Disgusting Than The Rolling Stones Are In An Orgy Of Biting.

Either We Stay At Home And Become Pillars Of The Community Or We Go Out And Tour. We Couldn't Really Find Any Communities That Still Needed Pillars.

I Don't Really Count Myself As A Very Sophisticated Businessperson. I'm A Creative Artist. All I Know From Business I've Picked Up Along The Way.

People Love Talking About When They Were Young And Heard Honky Tonk Women For The First Time. It's Quite A Heavy Load To Carry On Your Shoulders, The Memories Of So Many People.

I Liked John A Lot. He Was The One I Really Got On With The Most. We Weren't Buddy-buddies But We Were Always Friendly. But After The Beatles And The Stones Stopped Playing Clubs, We Didn't See Each Other That Much Until He Separated From Yoko, Around 1974. We Got Really Friendly Again. And When He Went Back With Yoko, He Went Into Hibernation ... When I Went To Visit Someone In The Dakota, I'd Leave Him A Note Saying: 'i Live Next Door: I Know You Don't Want To See Anyone, But If You Do, Please Call.' He Never Did.

Life's Just A Cocktail Party - On The Street.

Cocktail Parties

I Am Not A Librarian Of My Own Work. It's A Good Thing Not To Be Too Involved With What You Have Done.

Of Course We're Doing It For The Money. We've Always Done It For The Money.

I Didn't Have Any Inhibitions. I Saw Elvis And Gene Vincent, And I Thought, "well, I Can Do This." And I Liked Doing It.

I, Personally, Have A Lot Of Energy, So I Don't See It As An Immediate Problem.

I Don't Believe In Having Bands For Solo Records.

When You Write Songs, You Have To Like Them Yourself First, But Then You Have To Make Everyone Else Like Them, Because You Can Force Them To Play It, But You Can't Force Them To Like It.

Casanova, He Had No Money And No Power, And According To Some, He Even Was Cute. But He Had Talent To Live, And Some Literature Talent. I Love How He Invented Himself.

If You Are British, You Soon Get Used To People Not Loving You. The Irish Remind Us Of Offenses From 100 Years Ago. Perhaps We Should React To What The French Did To Us Even Longer Ago.

One Song Isn't Going To Ever Change Things, But I Suppose It's The Accumulation Of Music Generally [that Is]. If You Can Imagine A World That Has No Music In It, It Would Be A Very Different World, So Music Does Change The World By Virtue Of All The Music In It. Cumulative Music Of Every Kind, From Banging A Drum To Playing A Flute Or Recording Symphonies, Or Singing 'war, What Is It Good For?' All Those Things Change The Whole Way We Live.

I Believe We Should Encourage Children To Sing And Play Instruments From An Early Age.

Any Performer Is One Person Privately And Then He's Another Person When He Steps On The Stage.

My Father Was Furious With Me, Absolutely Furious. I'm Sure He Wouldn't Have Been So Mad If I'd Have Volunteered To Join The Army. Anything But This. He Couldn't Believe It. I Agree With Him: It Wasn't A Viable Career Opportunity.

I Always Think It's Better To Be Not Taking Drugs Or Drinking Or Anything. That's Not Saying I've Never Done It Because I Have. But I Sort Of Learned I Think After A While There Has Been - It Didn't Take Me That Long To Realize That It Wasn't A Good Thing.

Rock & Roll Mostly Is A Very Butch Thing, And It Appeals To One Hard Side Of The Masculine Character. But I Don't Think The Rolling Stones Are Only A Rock Band. They Can Be Other Things. They Can Be Very Feminine.

You Know, Being In A Rock Band, You Can't Overdo The Costume Changes Too Much Because Everyone Thinks, Oh, That's Not A Real Rock Band. Look How Many Times He Changes Costumes. That's Not Rock. Rock's About Going On In A T-shirt And Staying In It And Getting It All Dirty. But That's Not Really My Approach.

Always As A Musician You Must Have One Thing You Do Well.

Right Now I Can't Be Sure That I Will Be Back On Stage. We Have Been Touring For Two Years And That Is Way Too Much.

Samba Rhythm Is A Great One To Sing On, But It's Also Got Some Other Suggestions In It, An Undercurrent Of Being Primitive - Because It Is A Primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that Rhythm. So To White People, It Has A Very Sinister Thing About It.

I Don't Only Like Rock Music. There Are Other Forms Of Music That I Find Interesting. I Would Want To Do Everything, Every Kind Of Music. I Wouldn't Want To Be Limited To Like Playing Heavy Metal Or Whatever.

It's Nice To Collect Stamps, But If It Becomes Obsessive, And You Start Stealing For Your Stamps, It Becomes Too Much.

I Would Like To Reach A Balance And Forget A Few Things.

Drug Use Makes You Snappy, And You Get Very Bad-tempered And Have Terrible Hangovers.

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