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"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."
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"There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source."
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
"No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot."
"I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained."
"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."
"Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again."
"Experience is by industry achiev'd,And perfected by the swift course of time."
"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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"When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it."
"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."
"But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there."
"It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something."
"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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