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"I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it."
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"Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar."
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"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
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"I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it."
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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"
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"I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke."
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"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."
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"I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something."
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"Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing."
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"I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change."
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"Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older."
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"All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good."
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"I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board."
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"Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me."
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"And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use."
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"I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me."
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"So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door."
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"I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years."
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"It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers."
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