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"Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something."
Experience
"I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself."
Freedom
"My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated."
Mother
"If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after."
Being
"How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible."
Woman
"My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store."
Mother
"I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here."
Name
"I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad."
Funny
"I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't."
Age
"Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy."
Sex
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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Personal Development
"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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Personal Development
"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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Personal Development
"I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go."
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"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."
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"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."
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Personal Development
"I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive."
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"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."
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"It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all."
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"My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength."
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