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"My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"

"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."

"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."

"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."

"Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?"

"I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive."
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"If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it."

"I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't."

"The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune."

"I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention."

"I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along."

"No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work."

"But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got."

"This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for."

"My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that."
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