"Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back"
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"Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?"
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"I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me."
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"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity."
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"What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it."
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"When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it."
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"I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do."
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"I have to remind myself not to set boundaries."
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"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."
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"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."
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"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."
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"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
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"All audiences should be slightly off balance."
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"I think it's absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one's been before, uncharted territory. In terms of content, I see limitations where there should be none. I know there are things I wouldn't write about, but that shouldn't be the case. You should be able to make a song out of anything, out of any situation."
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"I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands."
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"I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself."
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"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
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"People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences."
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"I think you can refine what you do, and become more consistent. And you write better songs that have a better shape and a better feeling. You evolve into and out of things, and go through stages, but, ultimately, you do improve."
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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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