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"Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: Yes. Yes. No. One time in high school. Three times in my twenties. Rocks no salt. Yes. Four. Never. And how dare you! I will take no further questions."
"Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did — challenged me to do the same, and so, even when the content was antiwoman, antisexual, in a sense antihuman, the form encouraged my struggle for liberation."
"There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself."
"Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked every day."
"To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed."
"Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet."
"Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist."
"It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life"
"Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between."
"The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal"
"We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway."
"Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first."
"I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it."
"The world that I inhabit in reality is probably very different world than the one people expect that I would be in. It is quite sedate. It's far removed from a lot of what they would feel to be the limousine traveling rock existence, or whatever."
"It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll."
"Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it."
"I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing."
"I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a completely different fashion."
"Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks."
"I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off."
