"I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that."
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"I don't really have a retirement plan."
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"There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt."
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"Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere."
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"Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it."
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"Some things are too terrible to be true."
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"Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before."
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"I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?"
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"For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free"
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"Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay."
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"I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time."
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"I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age."
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"I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day."
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"He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time."
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"There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better."
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"The one who is not being born is dying."
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"The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work."
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"I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are."
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"I do know what my songs are about."
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"I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me."
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