Perry Farrell Rates Face Tattoos, Hedonism, and Touring in a Van

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It's not overrated because, when you first start,

you've got to suffer a little bit.

You have to feel pain to understand pleasure

As an example, if you grow up in affluence,

you don't understand the working class.

And so, what you're trying to do

is you're trying to refine yourself as a man or as a woman

so that you can end up, in your later years,

you have this wonderful gift that's wisdom.

But you must start first in a van.

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Underrated.

I think face tattoos are really interesting.

I'm very afraid that my son is gonna get one.

He, at the age of 12, was starting to draw

all over his face, so I'd be with this little kid

who tattooed his face, but with markers.

He's very infatuated with it.

My generation, we didn't have tattooed faces so much.

Sometimes, it looks really cool,

and sometimes, like other tattoos, it looks like shit.

If you're gonna get a face tattoo,

think about it for weeks, months, maybe even years.

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Underrated because, when you're going out there

as a shaman, as a witch doctor, you need to go into,

slightly need to step into the fifth dimension,

and so there are things on the earth,

there are plants that will help you do that.

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I'll overrate public sex.

You should kind of ask before you just show us your genitals

'cause we might not want to see your genitals.

I find that, as I get older,

I'm less likely to want to see people having sex.

I mean, every once in a while, something will come on.

I don't know, but there'll be porn.

I'm just not, I don't really want to see strangers

'cause I want to know more about them

before I want to see them doing something

that intimate with each other.

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Underrated.

We come down to this world reincarnated

and we start from scratch.

Yeah, we're innocent when we're little babies,

but then we get introduced to all these vices,

and some of those vices kinda stick

or you became infatuated with them.

Definitely, there is a process, a hedonistic process

to getting back to god.

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Quitting cold turkey can be very good for you.

In fact, every junkie should quit cold turkey

in their lifetime.

If you really, really, really hurt,

really, really, really hurt,

you might start to and begin to understand

how Christ felt on the cross.

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