"There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing."

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"There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing."

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"I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience."

Experience,

"I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers."

Home,

"I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?"

Talk,

"I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in."

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"I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying."

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"It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning."

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"I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record."

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"I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go."

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"Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else."

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"It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually."

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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