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"Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog."

"They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring."

"So the guy that we're really targeting our system at this year is one of the guys who brought a 16bit system three or four years ago and has pretty much had it with that, and he's ready to buy something new."

"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."

"I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept."

"Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience."

"What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone."
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"Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World."

"You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense."

"It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after."

"I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out."

"There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing."

"So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more."

"You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way."

"It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here."
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