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"You have to be very brave in that first writing session."
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"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."
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"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."
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"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."
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"But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do."
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"First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'."
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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
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"I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction."
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"You've got to really be able to accept the rejection."
Rejection
"You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know."
Nothing
"We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs."
Music
"It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest."
Harvest
"I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs."
Time
"I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows."
Work
"I've written songs sober and I've written songs high."
Music
"A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by."
Being
"If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today."
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