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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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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles."
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"Necessity, the mother of invention."
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"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."
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"I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me."
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"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."
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"When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too."
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"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."
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"My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother."
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"That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions."
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"My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll."
World
"James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub."
Being
"My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses."
Life
"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
"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
"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
"You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way."
Fame
"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
"I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car."
Car
"I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28."
Church
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