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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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"All audiences should be slightly off balance."
Audience
"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity."
Bravery
"I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do."
Drugs
"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."
Cheating
"I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible."
Effort
"It's amazing what some people read into songs."
People
"I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action."
Action
"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
Artist
"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
Want
"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs."
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Personal Development
"But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting."
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Personal Development
"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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Personal Development
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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Personal Development
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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Personal Development
"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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Personal Development
"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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Personal Development
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