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"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."

"Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things."

"Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments."

"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."
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"I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence."

"I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record."

"If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me."

"The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion."

"Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage."

"My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant."

"You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth."

"Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves."

"That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them."
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