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We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the…
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Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
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We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.
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People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what…
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Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
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I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed…
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A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my…
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I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
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I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.
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As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the…
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Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and…
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When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
— Paul Auster
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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
— Paul Auster
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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
— John Berger
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is…
— John Berger
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my…
— Maya Angelou
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I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological…
— Shirley Jackson
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It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical.…
— Gloria Swanson
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If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship,…
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All forms of landscape are autobiographical,
— Charles Wright
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All art is autobiographical.
— Federico Fellini
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The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing…
— Will Oldham
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The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'.
— Jonathan Franzen
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