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"I never listened to country music growing up."

"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."

"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."

"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."
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"Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things."

"Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her."

"People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated."

"The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence."

"You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day."

"We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic."

"For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life."

"I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music."

"I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer."
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