"I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking."
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"I still believe that something is right only when it feels right."
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"The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time."
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"If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life."
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"You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song."
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"Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun."
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"I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth."
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"The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else."
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"I believe that music is God's voice."
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"I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy."
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"Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive."
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"I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music."
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"I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song."
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"Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations."
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"I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life."
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"I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon."
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"I'm happy; I'm a happy person."
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"Love and mercy that's what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight."
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"I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something."
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"I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell."
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