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"I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking."
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"I've been drinking and using since I was 13."
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"It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy."
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"I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty."
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"The piano has been drinking, not me."
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"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
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"Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off."
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"I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan."
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"Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking."
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"The whole world is about three drinks behind."
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"So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!"
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"More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible."
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"I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women."
Music
"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."
Education
"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
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"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
Books
"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."
Criticism
"For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift."
Music
"I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary."
Opinion
"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."
Age
"Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself."
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