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"Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!"

"Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight."

"I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones."

"Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically."

"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."

"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
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"I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper."


"There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that."


"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."


"I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness."


"You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."


"Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town."


"The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready."
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