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" Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song. "

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" And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either. "

" I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. "

" We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it. "

" I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out. "

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" I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. "

" When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do. "

" All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels. "

" Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. "

" Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long. "

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" This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love. "

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