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I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it's even worse thinking that it'll go away if you just ignore it.

Babatunde Adebimpe

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I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.
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If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.
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Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.
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The cynicism doesn't come across in the final it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.
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You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.
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Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced.
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There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else I can do but I'm really not going to end up like any of these people.
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Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it's the rare band that doesn't, like, turn into something else.
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Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.
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My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
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