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" I've learned by experience that, if I get too clever with lyrics, or if I'm not totally embodying my own wants and needs in the songs, I can't remember them. "

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" At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar class, and I played with ten of my classmates, and we did a little guitar orchestra for a school music. "

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" I can finish a show and walk through the audience without being recognized. "

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" I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation. "

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