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- Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
- 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…
- Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the…
- Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism,…
- They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.
- The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about…
- 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…
- Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to…
- You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music…
- When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.
- I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.
- bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.
- Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or…
- 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…
- There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time,…
- Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only…
- The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!
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