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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."

"I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf."

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."

"That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg."

"But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in."

"I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look."
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"I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album."

"The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me."

"I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light."

"I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were."

"I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time."

"If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it."

"All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am."
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