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"Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do."
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"I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach."


"At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one."
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"I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there."
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"Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy."
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"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."


"A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on."
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"We want only loyal workers who are grateful from the bottom of their hearts for the bread which we let them earn."


"As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to."
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"We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know."
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"I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine."
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"I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that."
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"If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that."
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"When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review."
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"I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image."
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"It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen."
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"So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'."
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"When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper."
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"I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either."
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"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."
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