"You do what you love, or you get arrested."
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"You can't always trust your mother."
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"I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school."
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"I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental."
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"My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar."
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"Sometimes, you've got to be in a place. You're just another guy. You can just blend in. I live out in the wilds of nowhere, out in Jersey. Even there, there's sometimes problems. College students like journey out there and show up at 11 o'clock at night, on my porch, looking into the door not saying anything. My wife and I are sitting there; it's really creepy."
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"I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room."
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"You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both."
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"It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy."
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"I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it."
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"I like mindless disco... they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what's wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious."
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"I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs."
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"Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?"
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"Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody."
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"My week beats your year."
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"They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland State Hospital to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again."
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"Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass."
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"You're going to reap just what you sow"
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"It's just a temporary thing."
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"I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine."
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