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"You may not be able to hit all the notes. That's OK. You may not have the clearest tone. You may not have the greatest range. But if you can inhabit your song, you can communicate."
"I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school."
"Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way."
"I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice."
"Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air."
"I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs."
"For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive"
"Physical pain is my friend. I pursue it every night for four hours."
"And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something with just my voice, just the guitar and just my songs that was going to move someone enough to give me a shot. So I wrote songs that were very lyrically alive and lyrically dense. And they were unique, but it really came out of the motivation to - or I understood it was - I was going to have to make my mark that way."
"Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier."
"I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin."
"My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see."
"Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young."
"Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going."
"For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together."
"Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay."
"The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law."
"An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for."
"There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending."
"Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions."