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" Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. "

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" Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long. "

" Success is survival. "

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" Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! "

" I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog. "

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" My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. "

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