"The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird."
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"He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone."
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"It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning"
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"People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard."
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"I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready."
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"It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin."
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"It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually."
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"There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I cant do by myself you know."
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"People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing."
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"All your secret wishes could right now be coming true."
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"Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else."
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"The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun."
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"I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?"
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"They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases."
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"I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying."
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"People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood."
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"I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members"
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"I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being."
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"Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is"
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"So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song."
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