"Tolerance can lead to learning something."
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"My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job."
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"I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass."
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"There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is chaos, and there is crime There is no one home tonight, in the empire of my mind"
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"A guilty conscience means at least you have one."
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"Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?"
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"But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed."
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"It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well."
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"I'm talking about the '60s really. People go interview these guys and ask them, "Do you still think music can change the world?" I mean, go talk to Graham Nash about that. What's he going to tell you? Ask David Crosby. These guys are still out there. They're playing their hits at Staples Center and those are really valuable songs. I'm talking about a couple of the guys who got knee-deep into really believing music had a great service beyond radio. I believe it did. And I think a lot of those songs are great."
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"I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit."
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"I see myself as a traditionalist. I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually, as the songs started to come together, I followed that lead, which is the language I work in."
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"I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it."
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"There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting"
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"You have to have a work ethic and you have to be educated in what you're doing. You have to take it seriously. It doesn't mean that everything you do has to be serious. But you've got to have the tools."
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"I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king."
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"My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity."
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"Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop"
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"Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in."
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"To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records."
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"The trouble, dollIs not moving mountains, butDigging the ground that you're on"
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