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"The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place."
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"What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine."
"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."
"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."
"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."
"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."
"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."
"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."
"With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination."
"Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?"
"We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite."
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"Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario."
"Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing."
"When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me."
"It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own."
"You know that they're not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time."
"I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records."
"My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much."
"The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place."
"More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs)."
"I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist."
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