"Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song."
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"When you're younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love."
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"It's inappropriate for an elderly chap to register, you know, authentically, his feelings, you know, because they really can be interpreted. So you have to get quite covert as you get older. Or you have to find some avuncular way, you know, of responding."
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"I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability."
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"Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower."
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"My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character."
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"there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep"
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"[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated."
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"And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way"
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"A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I’m wanted at the traffic-jam. They’re saving me a seat."
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"I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against."
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"My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolations, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, See how the night has no terrors for one who remembers the name."
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"Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder"
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"You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong."
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"I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there. Hank Williams has been there."
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"My son and my daughter have both been an incredibly sustaining force, especially through this recent bad patch [of health]. So, I've been blessed and grateful for their company and for their assistance."
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"I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain."
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"i would like to remind the management that the drinks are watered and the hat-check girl has syphilis and the band is composed of former ss monsters However since it is new year's eve and i have lip cancer i will place my paper hat on my concussion and dance"
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"I looked into [Prozac]. I must say that it is certainly a wonder drug."
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"I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them."
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