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" You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart. "
Joni Mitchell
Youth
Heart
Day
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" 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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" My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. "
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" I'm a night owl. "
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" You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. "
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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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" I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. "
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" America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. "
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" With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. "
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" I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it. "
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" My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. "
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" I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. "
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" We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. "
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" No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. "
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Nature
Likes
" I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs. "
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Like
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" I believe that I am male and I am female. "
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" My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s. "
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" I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is. "
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Thought
" My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. "
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Writer
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" My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold. "
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Gold
Box
Me
" I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them. "
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Songs
Actress
Hard
" I couldn't see passion as a bad thing. "
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" Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name. "
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Series
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" Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time. "
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" But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability. "
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" I love to dance. "
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" My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. "
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