"I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean"
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"I know one day I'll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window's gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow - I would not care. I feel like I've lived, I feel like I've had a great life."
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"I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth."
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"You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying."
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"See it as it is, not worse than it is just so you have a reason not to try."
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"If the results don't scream: "Do this again!" Try something new."
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"Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs."
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"I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man."
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"I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it."
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"You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same."
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"I try not to do anything by formula."
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"It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts."
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"Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this."
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"He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying."
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"I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think."
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"If we don't give things a try, nothing will get off the ground."
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"I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done."
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"I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it."
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"I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it."
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"It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry."
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