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" I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others. "

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" Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on. "

" It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. "

" Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States. "

" I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. "

" Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all. "

" Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you? "

" I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history. "

" But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work. "

" I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me. "

" When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done. "

" Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time. "

" I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it. "

" Life is weird, great and dangerous. "

" When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright. "

" It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point. "

" I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave. "

" The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.' "

" Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth. "

" My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one. "

" I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do. "

" If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations. "

" I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird. "

" If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.' "

" If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America. "

" Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy. "

" Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely. "

" I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor. "

" One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot. "

" The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink. "

" As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves. "