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"When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs."
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"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."
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"I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'"
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"My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it."
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"I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character."
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"Everybody has fights with their sister."
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"When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing."
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"We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister."
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"It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in."
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"It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan."
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"And my little sister died when she was 16."
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"It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords."
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"Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift."
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"I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not."
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"When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue."
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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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"I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments."
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"Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already."
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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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"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."
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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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