"Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what."
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"There's two kinds of love, one is wrong and one is right."
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"I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work."
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"The king is gone but he's not forgotten"
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"As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk."
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"Now I'm at a point where I decided I'm going to be in the studio for a while, at least until I finish this record I'm working on now. I should have two, three, four of the sessions that I had that were similar to the sessions for Peace Trail before I have a complete record."
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"I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary."
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"The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they do their own version ... whatever they want to do it's a home run for music. Unless they screw it up, and try to put something on it so that they can own it - I'm calling it out, proprietary formats are not a good thing."
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"It's a robust time, probably the most fertile time for the underground and for revolution since Nixon. I'm not talking about political overthrow; I'm talking about just general cultural revolution. Bush has polarised the country and is creating this breeding ground for an opposition. In the next couple of months, they'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's pretty crazy."
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"Vinyl is great, I made a lot of vinyl, but I don't want new vinyl that's from digital sources, because that's a rip off."
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"I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels."
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"Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new."
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"Like a mountain that's growing."
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"I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward."
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"We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving."
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"Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities"
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"We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets."
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"With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life."
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"I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs."
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"My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down."
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