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"They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio."

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"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."

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"As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience."

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"Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite."

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Running

"I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does."

Music

"I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think."

Change

"It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record."

Time

"My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it."

Father

"I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio."

Love

"It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long."

Music

"You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one."

First

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Artist

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