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"I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story."

"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."

"Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty."

"An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch."

"The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication."
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"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."

"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."

"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."

"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."

"I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired."

"I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way."

"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
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