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“I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.”

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Black Francis

Black Francis, born Joseph Michael Stipe, is an influential American singer and songwriter. Known for his unique musical style and profound lyrics, he is one of the key figures in the alternative rock scene of the 1990s. Black Francis is best known as the lead vocalist of the band The Pixies, which rose to prominence in the early 1990s and became a pioneer of alternative rock. more

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“As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "variorum" edition of the work that presents its variants. I think publishing most other writing that way would be impossible, economically, for publishers, and very ill-advised for authors.”