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"If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want."
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"But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia."
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"Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught."

"I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me."

"They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right."

"I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that."

"Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger."

"I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble."
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"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."

"Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?"

"Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers."

"I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record."

"If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings."

"Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?"

"I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans."
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