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-''30 years ago, in “[[Mention::Pretty Girls Makes Graves]]”, you said, “I’m not the man you think I am.” It was a tale of losing faith in womanhood. And in your new album, there’s a song called “[[Mention::I'm Not A Man|I’m Not a Man]]” detesting Casanova and Don Juan. “Sex and love are not the same,” you sing in “Smiler With Knife’. There’s always a search for purity and the meaning in this world, and a preference for a desire for love over lust in your lyrics. I’d love to learn your thoughts on the idea of separating love and sex.''
+''30 years ago, in “[[Mention::Pretty Girls Make Graves]]”, you said, “I’m not the man you think I am.” It was a tale of losing faith in womanhood. And in your new album, there’s a song called “[[Mention::I'm Not A Man|I’m Not a Man]]” detesting Casanova and Don Juan. “Sex and love are not the same,” you sing in “Smiler With Knife’. There’s always a search for purity and the meaning in this world, and a preference for a desire for love over lust in your lyrics. I’d love to learn your thoughts on the idea of separating love and sex.''
 '''Well, of course, we can love our friends without wanting any physicality, and we can also meet someone who means nothing to us on an intellectual level yet we’d love to have a physical wrestle, shall we say.  The problem is, I think, that most of us think there is only one very firm side to our personality.  We can’t accept that there are many versions of ourselves within, many composites that make up what we are.  We lock into our likes and dislikes at the age of 15, and we stay there forever.  Then, at the age of 28, you find yourself saying to someone “well, I’d like to, but I can’t”. We all seem to be petrified to say exactly what we truly feel.  In reality, of course, everyone is fascinated by the sexuality of every other person, but we must all die saying nothing because life exists only under specific orders, and if we ignore those orders then we are accused.'''
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 '''That description obviously sounded overworked, but I was serious.  I couldn’t feel any affinity with the three existing genders. However, I am not a freak, and I don’t live in a frenzy of rage, but at the age of 23 I was absent from sex because there was no way in. What was the point of me?  It’s only a form of fear that makes us mimic everyone else, because otherwise we’re asked to explain ourselves, and people hate to do that because you find yourself face-to-face with a new awareness, and it just might be too exciting a proposition.  A lot of people prefer entrapment and orders and even alienation, yet there is so much within that could be teased out, and we could all surprise ourselves, but most of us prefer simple ignorance.  Do you really think that you were created and placed on this planet in order to pay a mortgage?'''
-''In the book called “[[Morrissey: Fandom, Representations and Identities]]”, there is a chapter about your negotiation of dominant gender and sexuality codes. And Elisabeth Woronzoff writes, “Morrissey does not deconstruct popular culture to such extend that is unrecognizable from its original entity. What Morrissey does that is so unique is that he acknowledges the dominant codes but parlays an alternative means of decoding them. I read Morrissey as one who does not actively oppose dominant discourse. I hold that what he does do is settle in the middle, and presents us with a negotiated discourse.” What I understand from reading this paragraph is that by doing this, you seek not to destroy order but to reorder. Would it be fair to say that this negotiation ‘allows your fans to decide and interpret your language, lyrics and appearance as reflections of their own identity’?''
+''In the book called “[[Mention::Morrissey: Fandom, Representations and Identities]]”, there is a chapter about your negotiation of dominant gender and sexuality codes. And Elisabeth Woronzoff writes, “Morrissey does not deconstruct popular culture to such extend that is unrecognizable from its original entity. What Morrissey does that is so unique is that he acknowledges the dominant codes but parlays an alternative means of decoding them. I read Morrissey as one who does not actively oppose dominant discourse. I hold that what he does do is settle in the middle, and presents us with a negotiated discourse.” What I understand from reading this paragraph is that by doing this, you seek not to destroy order but to reorder. Would it be fair to say that this negotiation ‘allows your fans to decide and interpret your language, lyrics and appearance as reflections of their own identity’?''
 '''That’s exactly the aim, so, therefore, hopefully, you are of some use to everyone, and we all feel less alone if we are assured that our feelings are shared by others, naturally. Your real home is your body – not your house or your apartment. To sit still and endure your own feelings is probably the toughest part of everyone’s day.  It need not be.  Or, if it has been, then now it must stop, because, by the age of 29, we’re all tired out, and soon we enter our 40s as if we are entering death, when, really, it’s a better beginning than entering our 20s. Human beings have been treated like processed chemicals for too long.  It is time to sit and fill the whole chair, to drink yourself in like you would a glass of wine, and to stop chasing old and forced behavioural patterns.  How do we do this?  Well, it’s easy.  You just begin to. Instead of being afraid of people who nudge and push us, we should appreciate anyone at all who puts new questions before us.'''