"Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride."
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"I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could."
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"I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music."
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"I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five."
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"When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity."
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"Time will take your money, but money won't buy time."
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"Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!"
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"To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life."
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"Music is like a huge release of tension."
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"Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind."
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"It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before."
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"I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me."
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"I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent."
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"I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself."
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"I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else."
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"I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium."
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"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you."
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"People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down."
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"We could never have guessed We were already blessed where we are."
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"Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest."
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