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"To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then."
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"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."

"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot, reading is the creative center of a writer's life, you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."

"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."

"When you go beyond your limitations, that is called success."

"He who unlocks his greatest potential will reap his greatest treasures."
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"David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent."

"If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed."

"Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do."

"When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person."

"People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make."

"Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy... it's hard to believe I was so crazy."
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