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If Art Were To Redeem Man, It Could Do So Only By Saving Him From The Seriousness Of Life And Restoring Him To An Unexpected Boyishness.

There Is Not One Thing That's Beatle Music. How Can They Talk About It Like That? What Is Beatle Music? Walrus Or Penny Lane? Which? It's Too Diverse: I Want To Hold Your Hand Or Revolution Number Nine?

I Didn't Really Know That Much About The Maoists, But I Just Knew That They Seemed To Be So Few And Yet They Painted Themselves Green And Stood In Front Of The Police Waiting To Get Picked Off.

There Was Something Wrong With Me, I Thought, Because I Seemed To See Things Other People Didn't See.

There Are Only A Few Notes. Just Variations On A Theme.

Everybody Seems To Think I'm Lazy I Don't Mind, I Think They're Crazy. Running Everywhere At Such A Speed Till They Find There's No Need.

In The Two Books I Wrote, Even Though They Were Written In A Sort Of Joycean Gobbledegook, There's Many Knocks At Religion And There Is A Play About A Worker And A Capitalist. I've Been Satirising The System Since My Childhood. I Used To Write Magazines In School And Hand Them Around.

It Was Like Being In The Eye Of A Hurricane. You'd Wake Up In A Concert And Think, Wow, How Did I Get Here?

There Are Two Basic Motivating Forces: Fear And Love.

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