"Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively."

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"Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively."

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"The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Here I was, seeing you almost every week, and talking with you, and knowing that the only one in your heart was Kizuki. It hurt. It really hurt. And I think that's why I slept with girls I didn't know."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"You were never born to make money. You were born to enjoy life and be happy. Instead you learned to make money and forgot how to be happy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Life is a balance between letting go and holding on."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Don't always deprive yourself trying to please others."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises."

Jason Statham, British Actor

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"Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness."

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Poet

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"The absolute value of being neutral is zero."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"If you think too much heaven within your mind,you may have no time for simple things in this life."

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"We're kind of defined by our mistakes."

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"If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for."

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"Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band."

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"Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift."

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"Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones."

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"I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about."

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"I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds."

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"I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not."

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"I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road."

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"If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write."

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