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"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."

"Speaking unspoken words,music is a good way to say."
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"I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent."

"If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours."

"I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself."

"If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things."

"There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done."

"I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well."

"It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before."

"Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not."
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