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“I play music for preschoolers… But that’s a bunch of screaming kids, not a bunch of screaming girls.”
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“Life is paint, and I am both the canvas and the artist.”
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“I’ve always called myself the secret whore; a character based on what I’d do if I could.”
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“My own story comes from all the stories I’ve heard.”
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“I would aspire to be a force of nature, a simple and pure avatar of the Earth.”
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“I was born and got this superman cape and a green bear that I take with me everywhere.”
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“I am my dog…I don’t want to get into the corny stuff about fidelity…for me it goes a little bit deeper.”
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“I am a being made completely of light, trapped in a bag full of bones.”
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“Since I grew up in East New York I always wanted to be a gangster. Chad the Great White Shark hunts lawyers, the most dangerous game”
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“The Buddha says just let it go…so far I still have that drive. I am looking for a way to reconcile it.”
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“I live life as Clark Kent but I’d rather be Rita Hayworth.”
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“I like being a girl… No one knows I am a woman, let alone a lesbian. My beard is natural, there is no imbalance.”
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Nimoy at work in his studio.
Seth Kaye