"I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person."
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"I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars."
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"I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work."
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"If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances was to lift one's voice in song. This was a major ingredient in what is now known as blues and gospel. Slaves may have been regarded as subhuman by their cruel captors, but through music, they were proud and dignified."
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"When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from."
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"Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line."
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"Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free."
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"We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don't have to contend with it."
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"At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it."
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"The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk."
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"Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States."
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"We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic."
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"Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again."
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"Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?"
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"Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me."
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"Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous."
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"I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do."
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"It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements."
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"I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N."
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"Texas is as odd as it is vast."
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