"Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations."
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"I get tired of talking when I want to be silent."
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"I take the work seriously, just not myself in it."
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"And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time."
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"In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction."
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"To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month."
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"Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?"
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"I look at pictures of you because I am afraid that you would notice me staring in real life. I looked at your picture today for countless minutes. It is closer than I’ll ever get to you for real. I felt like I was looking at a captured animal at a safe distance. If you knew I was doing this, you would feel sickened and frightened. That’s why you’ll never know. Years will go by and you’ll never know. I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain."
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"Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really bad job, one of those horrible institutions, or one of those low squat buildings in Los Angeles. I write with that person in my mind."
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"I beg young people to travel."
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"The world's a better place since I chose music."
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"Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche."
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"The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture."
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"I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go."
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"It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist."
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"I am not a trained actor and am not near the top of anyone's want list. I go after what I am offered, if I am so inclined. Now and then, I get offers for things that are not to my liking, in that I just don't care about the story. All this super tough guy stuff isn't anything that interests me all that much. I can't think of anything I turned down that I regret."
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"Quite often people will get an animal which is probably not a good idea for them to have. They get it out of enthusiasm, there is a genuine interest, but sometimes they're not exactly prepared for what they're getting themselves into."
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"I don't consider myself an actor, for me it's employment. Like the actor who's a waiter a lot, I'm an actor when I'm not on tour, in that that's a job I can do."
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"I'd like to be a better writer, but I have no dreams to direct or do a screenplay. And I'd love to have a big starring role in a movie because the paycheck would be bigger. That's the only reason I do films."
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"Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!"
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