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" All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am. "
Doing
I Am
I Can
" A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. "
War
Think
Sane
" A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things. "
Fighting
Looking
Think
" 'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience. "
Experience
Day
Home
" I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been. "
Been
Imagine
Life
" I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time. "
Music
Poetry
Together
" I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album. "
Better
Alone
Me
" If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it. "
Heart
Yourself
God
" If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate. "
Going
You
Learning
" I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs. "
Gone
Opportunity
Music
" I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things. "
Looking
Things
Go
" I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd. "
Living
Seemed
Absurd
" It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one. "
Going
Never
Assume
" It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me. "
Pain
People
Energy
" I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were. "
Thought
Time
Rock And Roll
" I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light. "
Follow
Light
Me
" I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.' "
Song
Opening
Girl
" Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world. "
Found
Early
Since
" There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one. "
Some
World
Right
" There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate. "
Music
More
Lot
" The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me. "
Learning
Me
Writing
" The trouble with normal is it always gets worse. "
Normal
Worse
Always
" We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and I don't want 'You've Never Seen Everything' to make people feel hopeless. But I think we've got to call a spade a spade. "
You
Spiritual
People
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