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"I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights."
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"If I am ever unexpectedly stopped in my car by the police, my response after pulling over in a populated area is to politely and clearly inform them that I am unarmed, I am recording everything, if they want to take me to the police station that they will need to appoint a lawyer, and I am now using my USA federal right to silence."
"You cannot defend human rights without fighting religious fanatics - regardless of one's own religious experience - it is unavoidable. Why? Because they are the ones who take issue with how other people live their lives instead of minding their own business."
"People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation."
"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
"The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right."
"Time will come and riding horses will be seen by the whole society as a severe animal rights violation!"
"It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights."
"Not being treated as equal IS oppression."
"We wish to be citizens of the United States or citizens of Puerto Rico. In either case, with all the inherent rights of a natural sovereignty."
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"I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song."
"Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift."
"I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means."
"If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like."
"It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it."
"I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff."
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