"Life I love you, all is groovy."
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"When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all."
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"You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what."
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"You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen."
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"People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go."
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"When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal."
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"Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone."
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"I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives."
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"There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful."
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"The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time."
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"I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental."
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"It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin."
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"One man's ceiling is another man's floor."
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"Much of songwriting is simply a mystery."
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"I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that."
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"I don't like fashion. It's very heartless."
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"Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song."
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"My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting."
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"I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something, instead of it naturally coming out of me, like I was saying something that I already knew. Anyway, I can't remember what it was. And either I threw it all out or I threw 90 percent of it out, and kept a line or two. That's happened a couple of times to me. Not too often, but a couple of times. Very aggravating when it does happen."
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"I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me."
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