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"But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose."

"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."

"First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on."

"And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part."

"First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck."
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"Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!"


"Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio."


"I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words."


"Yeah, yeah I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band. The biggest one is that we're Satan worshippers, but next to that just the fact that we're normal."


"I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff."


"That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar."


"I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song."
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