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"The songs become the show, which is how it should be."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
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"My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant."

"If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me."

"Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage."

"Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves."

"I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record."

"You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth."

"The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion."
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