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"Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true."
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"What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't."
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"I just want to be treated like an average guy."
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Personal Development
"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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"It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records."
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"I want to be on a show that's as good as the one we're doing and that we get to make for many years."
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Personal Development
"I like it, but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring."
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"Your child is happy. What else could you want?"
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"If you want to grow, you must learn to let go."
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"I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings."
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"My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day."
Writing
"When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not."
People
"I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in."
Experience
"The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work."
Life
"And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing."
Writing
"I never listen to music when I write."
Music
"Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true."
Want
"I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time."
Time
"Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space."
Life
"I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways."
Conservative
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