"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."
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"A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do."
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"The radio makes hideous sounds."
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"You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom."
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"I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere, set out to find this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?"
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"Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about."
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"We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spiritual and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, it's not going to do anything for you."
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"Don't forget to support your public library."
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"I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can't see. (devil)"
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"Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need."
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"Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame."
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"Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way."
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"The motorcycle black madonna Two wheeled gypsy queen."
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"Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame."
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"I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around during a live show. I've been trying for years to come up with songs that have the feeling of a Shakespearean drama, so I'm always starting with that."
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"Chaos is a friend of mine."
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"Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles."
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"At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage."
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"I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds."
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"A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it."
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