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"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."
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"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."

"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."

"You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long."

"I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena."

"I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters."

"I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again."
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"I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy."

"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

"The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea."

"The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try."

"The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky."

"Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know."

"I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good."
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