"I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through."
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"There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell."
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"Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy."
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"The most important thing in art is taste."
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"My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection"
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"Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it."
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"I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music."
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"My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good, when work is that good, you have to appreciate every aspect of it. It's the architecture of it, it's like looking at a Frank Lloyd Wright building or a Lautner building, it's master craftsmanship. Every aspect of it intertwines in a perfectly harmonious way. That's what architecture is at its best and the architecture of my father's music is on that level."
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"Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last."
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"Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane."
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"Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything."
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"We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not."
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"For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day."
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"Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist"
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"They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology."
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"I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature."
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"I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired."
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"I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best"
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"The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom."
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"I try not to do anything by formula."
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