"First thing you learnis that you'vealways got to wait"
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"I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future."
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"I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums."
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"It's fun to be in a small club and to be able to look somebody right in the eye and watch them just freak. Then it's fun to be in front of thousands of people and watch a couple of hundred freaking out of their minds."
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"Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things."
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"I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts."
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"They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin."
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"It's interesting to have a conglomeration of people that covers the strata from A to Z... There's a certain element of the audience that's intellectually oriented, into the lyrics... then there's another element of the audience that's into a sex trip. I'm into both of them."
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"I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music."
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"The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up."
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"Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right."
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"Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute song can devastate you, or make you get up and dance, stop what you're doing and go, 'What is that?' It just hits you. And it's a very potent thing you're playing around with."
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"When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall."
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"When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror."
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"And no kinds of love are better than others"
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"Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos."
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"Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music."
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"It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print."
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"I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket."
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"In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle."
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