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"How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world."
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"That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way."
"Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible."
"As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note."
"I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around."
"One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself."
"Adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends."
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"I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back."
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