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"I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done."
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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."
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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."
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"Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself."
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"When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes."
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"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."
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"In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else."
Beginning
"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry."
Ideas
"I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing."
Ideas
"For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating."
Success
"Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature."
Nature
"The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be."
Life
"There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got."
Being
"I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done."
Mother
"I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28."
Church
"I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time."
Time
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