"You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be."
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"It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half."
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"I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman."
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"I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design."
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"That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet."
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"Love is a healer and I love you."
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"An idea discovered is much better possessed."
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"We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image."
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"The youth of this country are not behind what is going on. We all know that. If you looked at a [political] map of the United States 25 and under, it's all-revealing. It's a unified map."
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"It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings."
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"To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time."
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"I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record ["Peace Trail"]."
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"I like to go in right away as soon as I have things."
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"I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated."
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"I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates."
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"Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market."
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"You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones."
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"Five hundred years later we're still doing it. This is a moment where we're either going to reaffirm that's what we do [with Native Americans ], that's who we are, or we're going to start moving toward change. A change won't come easy, because there's a lot of big money that doesn't care about any of this."
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"My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio."
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"It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good."
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