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"In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same."
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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
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"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."
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"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."
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"As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America."
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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."
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"If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America."
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"Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song."
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"It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it."
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"That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage."
Work
"I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for."
Change
"I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process."
Love
"I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians."
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"When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time."
Time
"I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge."
Discipline
"All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together."
Sound
"So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing."
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