There’s always some 70-year-old in a Def Leppard t-shirt telling me [I'm] not rock and roll because it’s not what they want. It’s about that fundamental and undeniable lack of fear to be yourself and say what you think—that’s rock and roll. | | | | Nina Kraviz at the Field Day Festival, London, June 3, 2017.
(Lorne Thomson/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “There’s always some 70-year-old in a Def Leppard t-shirt telling me [I'm] not rock and roll because it’s not what they want. It’s about that fundamental and undeniable lack of fear to be yourself and say what you think—that’s rock and roll.”
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