"So Lightning says to Mud,"What would happen if I struck your blood?And Mud says, "Brother, It would hurt, And make me the motherOf every living thing.But, Fire Boy, you ain't lifting my grass skirtUntil you burn me a ring."

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"I am not a myth."

"The more real things get, the more like myths they become."

"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"

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