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"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."
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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."
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"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."

"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."

"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."

"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."

"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."

"If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out."
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