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" You make mistakes and you learn from them. "

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" Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business. "

" When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging. "

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" I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre. "

" I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms. "

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" For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways. "

" The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it. "

" Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them. "

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" The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics. "

" When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right. "

" It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you're not supposed to hide your light under a bushel. "

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