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"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."
Family
"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."
Music
"Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had."
Fun
"I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human."
People
"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."
Time
"I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music."
Music
"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."
Cause
"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."
Money
"I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else."
People
"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."
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"Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun."
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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."
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"Fun is never gone because life is fun."
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"Remember these two things: play hard and have fun."
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"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
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"Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun."
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