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"It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought."
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"Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson."

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"Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing."

"Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it."

"The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily."

"The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not."

"It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much."

"A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat."
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