"My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked."

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"My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked."

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"I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience."

Experience,

"I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers."

Home,

"I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?"

Talk,

"I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in."

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"I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying."

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"I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record."

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Time,

"Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else."

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"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

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"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

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"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

Richie Norton, American Author

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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

Stephen King, American Author

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"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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