A Quote by Boris Vian
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
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I love the music, I love who I am. So that is the driving force to make everything else work.
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