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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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"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."
"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."
"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."
"Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music."
"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."
"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me."
"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."
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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."
"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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