"One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it."
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"I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?"
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"I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song."
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"What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this?"
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"The weather is here Wish you were beautiful."
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"Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me."
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"I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age."
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"I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me."
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"We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans."
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"I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night."
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"Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones."
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"I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid."
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"You better lava me now or lava me not."
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"If I couldn't laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane."
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"There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink."
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"Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen."
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"And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them."
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"Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea."
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"We are the people our parents warned us about."
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"Lights are glowing in the palm trees."
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