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"I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up."
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"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."
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"I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up."
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"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
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"Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to."
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"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."
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"I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties."
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"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."
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"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."
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"My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up."
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"I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up."
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"That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing."
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"Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes."
Time


"It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got."
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"I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song."
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"I have yet to write that one song that defines my career."
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"I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies."
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"I try to conduct my life with a little levity."
Life


"The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience."
Experience


"There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world."
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"I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!"
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