"When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity."

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"When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity."

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"We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow."

Pain

"I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from."

Life

"That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind."

Motivational

"When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity."

Months

"Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely."

Benefit

"I can take criticisms but not compliments."

Compliment

"It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way."

Time

"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you."

Music

"I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music."

Music

"It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly."

Growth

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"We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand."

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"A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her."

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"We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band for at least 3 months. If it took him that long to be comfortable we probably would need double the amount, but It's just not financially possible to do so."

Dweezil Zappa, American Musician

Months, Songs, Will

"I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading."

John Zorn, American Composer

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"My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more."

Walter Matthau, American Actor

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"But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever."

Will Arnett, Canadian Actor

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"I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it."

Catherine O'Hara, Canadian Actress

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"When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity."

James Taylor, American Musician

Months, Years

"It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point."

Syd Barrett, English Musician

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