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"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."
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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
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"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."
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"I did mostly good things, except light things on fire."
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"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
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"Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much."
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"It wasn't a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us."
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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers."
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"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility."
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"Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands."
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"I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part."
Heart

"Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano."
Work

"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."
Living

"But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him."
Life

"I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music."
Music

"I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir."
Water

"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."
Music

"I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking."
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"Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in."
Music

"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan."
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