"If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important."
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"Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm."
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"You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life."
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"It's about being in a race with time - just having a strong sense of mortality, and the idea of, How much time do you have left? How do you want to spend it? What I always come up with is: keep on writing, keep on working. But you can become sterile. It's become a matter of trying to find inspiration someplace outside of my own head, which I've been using exclusively for too long."
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"Don't pull your love out on me baby."
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"When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to learn how to write. To sit in a room with a bunch of would-be writers, who want to write the Great American Novel, every one of them, and you read their stories and they read yours, and you're not living a life. I don't like that. I like learning on the job. The character of my work has definitely evolved from the character of my life."
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"Listen, you listen to the work and you decide whether you want to support it. But don't ask me why I'm doing it, because I really do not know the answer."
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"You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get."
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"I found it extremely annoying when somebody would say something like "You seem to be influenced by Ken Nordine." And I didn't even know who Ken Nordine was."
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"I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on."
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