I was trying to put a sexy element into punk because that’s one thing that was missing from it.
Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 21 April 2026 source ↗
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I was trying to put a sexy element into punk because that’s one thing that was missing from it.
Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 21 April 2026 source ↗
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It’s really, really nice.
Yeah, well, he died of too much of all the right things.
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I was trying to put a sexy element into punk because that’s one thing that was missing from it.
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