"The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black."
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"The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers."
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"That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king."
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"Somehow all you ever need's never really quite enough."
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"Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece."
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"Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions."
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"Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around."
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"If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you."
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"Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul."
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"I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings."
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"People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often."
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"Most artists I know had one person in their life who told them they were the second coming of the baby Jesus, and another person that told them they weren't worth anything, and they believed them both, you know?"
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"The only thing I know as I get older is that I don't really need to be No. 1."
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"The country we carry in our hearts is waiting."
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"The release date is just one day, but the record is forever."
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"I think politics come out of psychology."
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"When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar."
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"I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along."
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"All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it."
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"Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire."
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