"Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion."
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"Evil man make me kill you."
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"It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music."
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"Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye"
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"You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend."
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"One time I said: maybe I should burn a guitar tonight. You know smash a guitar or something like that. And they said: yeah, yeah! I said: you really think I should? They said: yeah, that'd be cool. I said: well, ok."
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"I try to use my music to move these people to act."
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"Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too."
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"When I die, just keep playing the records."
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"The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend."
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"After awhile, your, your cheap talk don't even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain."
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"Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind."
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"Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man."
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"Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction."
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"I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me."
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"I try all night to play a pretty note."
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"Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground."
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"Genealogists live in the past lane."
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"I'm a million miles away, and at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame."
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"I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan."
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