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"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself."

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

"But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."
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"Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively."


"I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out."


"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."


"If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write."


"We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals."


"As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member."


"By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band."


"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."


"When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected."
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