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"We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something."
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"It's a pretty frantic world that we live in."
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"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them."
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"It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been."
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"We had a pretty good lead, so why push it."
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"The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true."
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"I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself."
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"I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept."
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"Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are."
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"Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think."
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"Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars."
Men
"When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines."
Genius
"I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche."
Mission
"The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things."
Home
"You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record."
Inspirational
"There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released."
Change
"Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude."
Art
"We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one."
People
"Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side."
Change
"The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is."
Music
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