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- I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
- When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street…
- 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…
- If I want to walk out in the desert and heat up a can of beans on a fire, I still can. In those movies…
- Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?
- Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.
- I dunno, when I started writing really I was like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex... occasionally,…
- People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and…
- I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. My wife actually thinks I have a syndrome called Reality Distortion…
- The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by.
- Popular music is like a big party, and it’s a thrill sneaking in rather than being invited. Every once in a while, a guy with…
- My wife, when I met her, she had a remarkable record collection. And they were all still in their sleeves! I couldn't believe it. She…
- I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.
- You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually…
- I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken…
- It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.
- 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…
- 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…
- I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being…
- Now its raining its pouring the old man is snoring now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in the street all…
- Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair
- He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my…
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