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I keep myself to myself pretty much. I'm not someone who gallivants around town looking for attention.
I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.
Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.
I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.
I went to school in Tanzania for two years, from five to seven. I started off in my mother's school with a lot of African children - but then I was put into the international school.
Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.
I love the Mexican muralists - like Rivera, Orozco - and the music of Walter Benton. They gave you a sense that reality was much more than life.
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.
