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"A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty."
"I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs."
"When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris."
"I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing."
"Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world."
"Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill."
"Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.” “Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel."
"People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around."
"And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches."
"A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones."
"I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it."
"It's a difficult time for a lot of people right now."
"There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it's all just noise that lets me know that I'm relevant."
"I love seeing people react to my music. Its like a drug, one of the strongest drugs ever in my opinion. Not that I'm doing drugs.. I just love that feeling. Putting out a feeling and having it really be the one is more addicting than anything in my life now."
"You can see desperation in people who are too eager to laugh because they're in such a hurry not to look at what's confronting them in their lives and that's kind of sad because there's a kind of pornographic aspect to it, of making some sort of pain go away, of hovering around a pain, making yourself numb, not feel anything."
"I find that the people who don't eat as much candy are really into heavy protein, like steak. I don't eat that."
"As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much."
"Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost."
"I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us."
"Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth."
