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“I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.”

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I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.

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I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.

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It's not my way to talk about my feelings. They're impudent to myself, so it wouldn't make any sense if I tried to explain…

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Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got, and their…

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All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.

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A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up.

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Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

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I don't like the word "happy." I wouldn't want to use it that context. I enjoy writing songs, it's a really good challenge, it…

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