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"Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?"

"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."

"One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell...if there is such a place. I tend to believe it's here on earth, possibly in New Jersey."

"Failure is information encased in a shell of pain."
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"People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down."

"It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure."

"I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself."

"I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent."

"I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from."

"If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things."

"It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before."

"I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well."
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