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• Will you pretend you're my boyfriend?
• I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
• You don't want to OD on improvisation.
• If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was…
• Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for…
• Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.
• You can't make a mistake when you improvise.
• New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City…
• Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The…
• Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful.…
• Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.
• Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

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