"People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often."
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"I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in."
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"It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people."
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"My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that."
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"I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them."
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"The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune."
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"I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that."
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"I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you."
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"I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was twelve. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are; if you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you."
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"I'm really much more like Phil Potter from [the 1979 film] Starting Over. People do think I'm the Bandit [from Smokey and the Bandit ], and I'm a lot more serious than that."
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"You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself."
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"Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people."
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"Just because we love someone, we begin to notice that love is an experience and we have to do something with it. We don't have to marry people or date them because we care about them very deeply. It's an experience."
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"I teach people to question their thinking, and this changes their world."
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"I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful," they say, "why would I bother taking action at all?""
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"Inviting people to inquiry is much more powerful to me than describing my experience... When people hear me tell the story, they often say, "Oh my goodness, I get it. I get it!" But it's not enough."
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"What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at a certain level, well, there's a skill to it. Still, it's a good time for photography now."
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"When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in."
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"There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't."
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"I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear."
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