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I felt so liberated when I first saw Charles Mee’s 'The Glory of the World' at BAM play, because for me this is the gateway to contemplation, or this is the gateway to love, or this is the gateway to faith, not sitting and reading a book by an isolated monk, god bless him. This is.

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Will Oldham
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: December 24
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Frank Sinatra's never been handsome, but he's one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?
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I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me.
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Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?
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I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.
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I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.
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I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.
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I feel much more physically connected to my voice, and I like the physicality of the voice, and how the voice can physically occupy a song.
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I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.
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I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.
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I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things people you can't see in buildings and cars.
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On days where I feel the karma is in balance I'm not afraid of death. And when I feel it's weighing heavily on the negative side, then I get very scared and just think about eternal damnation and how unpleasant that would be.
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I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.
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There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.
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You're making something that won't be what it is until some unknown date in the future. All aspects of the personal disappear.
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With women, you always have to make an educated decision to figure out what they're thinking. It's not one that's necessarily sympathetic, always. Of course, we're all human beings, but the gender thing is big thing. And a great thing.
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I gathered all the different Peel Sessions recordings together - I did six or seven of them over the years - and listened to all of them. These definitely have at least a superficial relationship to each other because they're all very spare.
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People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.
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I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.
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