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"They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing we know getting along the birth canal, out in the world. It's pretty basic. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you'd go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone."
"I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes."
"I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink."
"The way you do anything is the way you do everything."
"You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else."
"This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little box. And one day, I threw them out into the yard. "Oh, it's just a couple little innocent bad days." Well, we had a big rain. I don't know what it was growing in but I think we used to put eggshells out there and coffee grounds, too. Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em!"
"Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well."
"She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her."
"Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one."
"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk."
"Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things."
"You're my North Star when I'm lost and feeling blue."
"I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left."
"I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise."
"The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night."
"If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man."
"Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you."
"Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair"
"Come down off the cross, we could use the wood."
"I did my time in the jail of your arms"