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00:00 [ Music ]

00:15 >> Leave me alone.

00:17 >> The first time I heard Ben was when he had his band Noise Addict,

00:22 which I had heard on a cassette when Sonic Youth was touring.

00:25 >> He had a fearlessness to what he was doing.

00:28 >> I'm Ben Lee, I got my own album, and that's the side of the talk.

00:32 >> He wrote these confessional, beautiful pop songs about all the girls

00:36 that he had been infatuated with.

00:37 Of course, I was absolutely convinced that I was that girl.

00:42 >> I just thought, man, I wish this had happened to me.

00:47 >> I didn't have pictures of, I didn't have frames.

00:49 >> Ben had respect at the age of 14 for pretty cool people.

00:54 >> Pop stars have, you know, they're kind of fantasy figures.

00:58 >> It's the greatest Australian album of all time.

01:00 >> Mr. Ben Lee.

01:01 >> Ben Lee.

01:02 >> Ben Lee.

01:03 >> Ben Lee is the greatest Australian songwriter of all time.

01:09 >> I have a lot to say.

01:10 I have a lot to say.

01:12 [ Music ]

01:17 >> He called me the C word.

01:18 >> Yes, he did.

01:18 He called you a precocious little C word.

01:20 >> And we were each other's family, so it followed

01:23 that we would then have an actual family together.

01:25 >> How did the break-up affect him?

01:26 >> If it's possible to be in fashion, then the flip side is you're going to go out of fashion.

01:30 >> I really did have this dream of being Elvis.

01:33 >> If you have trouble separating yourself from your endeavors,

01:37 it's really easy to be wounded by it.

01:40 >> It's a lose-lose situation.

01:42 >> Ben was like this clever kid, and then his music changed, and it wasn't uber hip.

01:47 >> And then you start wondering, what am I really?

01:50 People have a spiritual experience.

01:52 They go through traumatic identity crisis.

01:55 >> I'm prone to this sort of like almost like born-again behavior.

01:58 >> I know it's a rock and roll cliche to have a guru.

02:01 >> This trip that I've been on since I was 14, it's like a snowball.

02:07 [ Music ]

02:11 >> I started smiling.

02:12 >> It's getting bigger and bigger.

02:15 >> Because some of that's gone, there's room for other things.

02:19 [ Music ]

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