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"They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian."
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"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."
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"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."
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"No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner."
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"If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination."
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"Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid."
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"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."
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"I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany."
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"I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys."
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"I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now."
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"The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been."
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"I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his."
Genius
"Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario."
Music
"The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place."
Imagination
"He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record."
Music
"Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life."
Life
"I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party."
Birthday
"I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist."
Art
"More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs)."
Music
"When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me."
People
"I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record."
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