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" If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I'd just go back to Virginia. "

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" And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia. "

" The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that it's real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like 'Let It Be' or 'Long and Winding Road' or a song like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Roxanne,' any of those songs. They sound like people making music. "

" I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more. "

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" Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it. "

" I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs? "

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" I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends. "

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