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" I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy. "

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" The people in my songs are all me. "

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" I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. "

" I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come. "

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" No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. "

" Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about. "

" A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. "

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" You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs. "

" My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world. "

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