Richey Edwards Quotes

#1. All rock and roll is homosexual.

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#2. We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler.

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#3. Everything in life has let me down.

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#4. Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American as Barbie/ Big Macs. Tomorrow the riots will be forgotten but Mickey mouse will still be there. Welcome to Disneyland.

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#5. The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.

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#6. We are young, beautiful scum pissed off with the world.

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#7. It's important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

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#8. I'm not really worried what people think about me. Because I judge myself harsher, and on more strict terms, than they ever could probably.

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#9. When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

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#10. I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

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#11. I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

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#12. I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment.

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#13. All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.

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#14. All you can do to the past is to never want to be like it.

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#15. I believe in nothing but it is my nothing.

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#16. Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

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#17. When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.

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#18. It's about people who take their frustration out on everyone around them. I never raise my voice. Cutting myself or hurting myself is the way I deal with anger.

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#19. In terms of the 'S' word, that does not enter my mind. And it never has done. In terms of An Attempt. Because I am stronger than that. I might be a weak person, but I can take pain.

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#20. All rock n roll is homosexual.

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#21. Love is an impossible concept.

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#22. The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes it's just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral.

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#23. I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else
- Faster, Manic Street Preachers

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#24. I've never hit anybody in my life. I never would, and the only way I could make a point was by hurting myself ... It's something I've done since I was a teenager.

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#25. There's an awful lot of white British kids who have never really gone hungry, always had a roof to live under but at the same time are desperately unhappy. It's not total poverty, just a poverty of ideas.

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#26. I'm not a person who can scream and shout so this is my only outlet. It's all done very logically.

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