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"Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control."
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"The quality of your life depends on how you take control of your time."
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"So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that."
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"You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you."
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"You can control one thing and that is your thoughts."
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"Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them."
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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
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"A man with a victim mentality attracts autocrats into his life who will decide how he should live."
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"All identification is for control and ownership."
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"If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better."
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"The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together."
Life
"My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it."
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"Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs."
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"When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it."
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"You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person."
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"People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need."
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"I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right."
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"After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration."
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"I'm a hopeful cynic."
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"We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived."
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