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Evan Dando

"Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?"

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"Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?"

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"I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out."
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"I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think."
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"I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting."
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"I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything."
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"Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on."
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"For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead."
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