“There’s an old saying, ‘don’t pay attention to what I’m saying, watch what I do.’ Sometimes it is useful to pay attention to what people say and to ignore the way they contradict what they do. Because it’s what people say that usually travels the farthest and ends up affecting people. It doesn’t really matter if there’s hypocrisy behind it, it can reach people as something that’s pure, and change them, set them off in their own directions.”
1994 interview at KUAF, with thoughts on Pauline Kael, the Velvet Underground, etc.
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