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"I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward."
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"If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions."

"If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good."

"What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt."

"Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality."

"I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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