"Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing."
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"Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think."
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"It's cool to go places where working people are happy."
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"Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere."
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"I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them."
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"Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying."
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"I just do what I do. I like to make music"
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"I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time."
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"I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach."
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"I see country music, I see people who take care of their own. You've got 75 year-old guys on the road. That's what I was put here to do, y'know, so I wanna make sure I surround myself with people who are gonna take care of me. 'Cause I'm in it for the long run."
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"Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we're had."
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"All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to."
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"I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord."
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"In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again."
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"Welfare mothers make better lovers."
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"As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more."
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"Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down."
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"People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds."
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"Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die."
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"Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record."
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