"I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs."

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"I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs."

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

William James, American Philosopher

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

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"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

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"I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles."

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"Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No."

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"I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred."

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"We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing."

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"I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?"

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"I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off."

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"Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album."

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"When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand."

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"I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it."

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"What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible."

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