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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."
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"I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace."

"Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album."

"My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material."

"I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?"

"I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off."

"We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing."

"Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No."
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