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" Trayvon Martin did not need to die. "

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" The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible. "

" Juan Williams is a very sharp guy. "

" All my big heroes are literary, writers. "

" I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind. "

" I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon. "

" People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation. "

" The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways. "

" When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up. "

" I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever. "

" I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy. "

" Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians. "

" And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time. "

" I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. "

" As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year. "

" 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 don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it. "

" I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. "

" I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else. "

" Every single record I have is a fossil. "

" I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside. "

" I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up. "

" As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not. "

" When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem. "

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

" Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me. "

" It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements. "

" Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there. "

" I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one. "

" A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere. "