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"If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want."
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"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."
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"The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe."
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"I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get."
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"The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it."
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"I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed."
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"I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear."
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"The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle."
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"I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you."
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"If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts."
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"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up."
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"More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible."
Music
"I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women."
Music
"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."
Education
"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
Books
"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."
Criticism
"For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift."
Music
"I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary."
Opinion
"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."
Age
"The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent."
Movies
"There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something."
American
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