"Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back"
"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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Source: Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2001.
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