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I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee. ”
To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless. ”
I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream. ”
Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human. ”
You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God. ”
My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights. ”
Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why. ”
We keep thinking that the human is evolving. No, the human has evolved to its extent. What's happening now is the organization of humans: just like cells organize to form people, people are organizing to form humanity. ”
What's very interesting is that when we look at human bodies, we look at our body as a singular entity when it turns out, no, if I could reduce us to a small size as the size of a cell and put you inside your body, rather than seeing a singular entity, what you would see is a metropolis with 50 trillion citizens. ”
In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have. ”