"I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through."
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"When you train a horse on a daily basis, you're a part of the horse's movement, you're a part of his motion. Everything that the horse experiences is coming from you. There's a total connection -- a true friendship -- and the connection touches the soul completely."
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"Sophomore records are historically really difficult."
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"I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much."
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"Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation."
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"Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them."
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"Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career."
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"I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living."
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"I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it."
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"I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else."
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"I was a complete outsider in high school."
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"I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them."
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"I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!"
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"For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space."
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"Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible."
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"Being on the road with rock, its pretty much 90 percent guys."
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"The simplest idea of someone coming to your home to pamper you at a time when all your energy is being expended to fight a personal battle, is much more than just feeling good about how you look. Beauty Bus gives its clients renewed internal strength to keep fighting."
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"Mary Ocher gives me the chills, she frightens me with her feral soul. Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately self possessed. Was this recorded this century? Or out of a basement that's she's been imprisoned all her life? Time to set her loose on the world. I'm so happy she exists. Set me free Mary!"
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"You have to open up on stage."
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"I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore."
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