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"Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves."
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities."
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"I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house."
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"I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco."
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"I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style."
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"I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on."
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"It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation."
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"Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby."
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"Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience."
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"Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice."
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"I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter."
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"I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18."
Life
"I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't."
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"Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music."
Music
"But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got."
Life
"My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that."
People
"I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them."
People
"If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it."
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"No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work."
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"I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings."
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