“Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?”
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“I would like to think there's some purity in us, yeah. Naive - y'know, purposely naive.”
From an interview on MTV with Zeca Camargo, 1993-01-21, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Interviews (1989-1994), Video
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Context: The victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed. No one — no matter where he lives or what he does — can be certain who will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed. And yet it goes on and on and on in this country of ours.
The Face (March 1982) http://www.kimwilde.com/articles/1982/00287/
Interviews
“And I was almost famous, now everybody love Kanye
I'm almost Raymond”
Last Call
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)
Reuters UK http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKN2861788420071129 (November 27, 2007)
As quoted in an interview with Jeremy Paxman, on Newsnight, as quoted in 'Harry is a lot, lot, lot angrier in this book' in The Telegraph (20 June 2003) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/fictionreviews/3596993/Harry-is-a-lot-lot-lot-angrier-in-this-book.html)
2000s
2003
December
The Guardian
'I know how to be sour'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2004/jan/01/1