"I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie."
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"The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe."
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"Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield."
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"We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters."
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"If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics."
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"When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened."
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"Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential to communicate, and deeply, deeply real."
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"I couldn't worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can't. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don't, you don't, and then something else happens. That's the point of the live performance."
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"There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart."
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"Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye."
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"Use it, Rosie, that's what it's there for."
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"If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know."
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"The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find."
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"Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting."
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"I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate."
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"I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them."
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"I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life."
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"You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records."
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"Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again."
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"It's hard to be a saint in the city."
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