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"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
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"The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before."
"At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar."
"I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force."
"The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved."
"You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction."
"I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky."
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"Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself."
"To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'."
"I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it."
"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."
"Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way."
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