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" We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy. "

Joni Mitchell

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" My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. "

" But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability. "

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" I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is. "

" Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at. "

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" This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms. "

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" For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. "

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" I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later. "

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