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Thurston Moore: What do you think of the whole debate on censorship -- parents being offended by pornographic lyrics?
Patti Smith: I think they have the right to be concerned. Some of the stuff pawned off as freedom of expression, let alone art, is just trash, just jerking off, with no real duty attached. No seeking to elevate. No self-censorship. No conscience. Things seem too open to me now, children are being robbed of their childhood. I don't know. Somehow I feel like Rip van Winkle who fell asleep in the '70s and woke up in the '90s. When I was a child we were much more cut off from the adult world. What I think is, "Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again."
-- Bomb magazine
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