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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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"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."

"You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time."

"But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them."
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"Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be."
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"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me."

"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."

"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."

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

"I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human."

"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."

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

"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."
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