"When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for."
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"I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album."
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"With Master Ren, if I'd tell him I can't do that and he'd say, yes you can, and it turns out I very much can do it."
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"You're a musician: You play. That's what you do."
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"You won't see my parents honored on any stamps."
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"I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong."
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"You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it."
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"To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do."
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"Honey, I'm a cocksucker, what are you?"
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"I think it's important that people don't feel alone."
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"I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views."
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"Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums."
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"When you're growing up in a small town You know you'll grow down in a small town There is only one good use for a small town You hate it and you know you'll have to leave."
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"The president's dead, no one can find his head, its been missing for two weeks. But no one seemed to notice it."
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"Research, research, research. It means everything."
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"I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets."
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"One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff."
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"I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs."
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"I can concentrate on my art."
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"The most important thing is work."
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