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"My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path."
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"Be a critical thinker too sometimes. Look in to your heart and give your self permission to ask your mind and question the teachings that doesn't resonate with the wisdom of your soul."

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"I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus."

"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."

"When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval."

"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."

"Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real."

"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."

"I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding."

"My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer."

"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."
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