00:00Those who suppress their loneliness become victims of suppression.
00:05Those who keep in touch with their loneliness come up with great creativity.
00:11Beautiful songs have risen out of human melancholy.
00:16So when you talk of songs you can enjoy,
00:19I say that all songs that have any truth in them
00:23have actually risen from the honest depth of man's suffering.
00:28One who has not suffered can never write a song.
00:32One who has not wept can never sing a song.
00:38All art is from the artist's inner turmoil.
00:46If you shelf that turmoil, if you lock it away,
00:54there will be no art in your life.
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