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"If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out."
Music
"Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music."
Music
"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."
Family
"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."
Music
"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."
Attention
"Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had."
Fun
"I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human."
People
"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."
Time
"I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music."
Music
"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"You can cage the singer but not the song."
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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."
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Personal Development
"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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Personal Development
"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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Personal Development
"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
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Personal Development
"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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"Music is the fastest motivator in the world."
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