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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
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"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."
"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."
"If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out."
"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."
"Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music."
"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."
"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."
"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."
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