"Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for."
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"I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die."
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"There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm."
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"That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind."
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"Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose Won't you let me go down in my dreams?"
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"Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing."
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"All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down."
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"The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart"
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"Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch."
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"If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things."
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"I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it."
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"My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it."
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"Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you."
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"I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport."
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"Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way."
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"Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music."
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"Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world."
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"Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome."
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"The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole."
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"He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone."
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