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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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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."

"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."

"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."

"I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers."

"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion."

"If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination."

"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."
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"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."

"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."

"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)."

"So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They'll be nice and get into it and have fun.' And it was the first record I made at my home studio."

"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."

"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."

"It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting."

"It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own."

"I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his."

"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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