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" I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla. "

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" Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way. "

" But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music. "

" Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name. "

" I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions. "

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" It's hard to win when you always lose. "

" When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room. "

" If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. "

" Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop. "

" If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were. "

" I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. "

" If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound. "

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" I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites. "

" The piano has been drinking, not me. "

" 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 takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs. "

" I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. "

" I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music. "

" George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him. "

" George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved. "

" I don't really like listening to the radio so much. "

" Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk. "

" You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone. "

" If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again. "

" I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own. "

" 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 form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. "

" I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture. "

" The big print giveth and the small print taketh away. "