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“And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you're blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.'”
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“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
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“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”
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“I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.”
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“And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you”
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“Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.”
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“When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.”
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“You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.”
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“Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?”
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“The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.”
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“People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.”
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“Sail on silver girl, sail on by...your time has come to shine all your dreams are on their way...see how they shine..oh and if you need a friend. I'm sailing right behind......”
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“The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.”
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“Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away...”
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“If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.”
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“My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.”
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“A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time”
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“Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.”
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“Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.”
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“Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.”
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“Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story, like I do in life, just talking to myself and making fun of stuff and laughing at stuff that's serious. And sometimes it's a good idea to put the laughing into the songs. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's all right just to be serious. But most of the songs have some kind of joke in them.”
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“I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what something means when an interesting line pops up. Or I can intuit what an interesting choice might be. And I can try a couple of different choices, and see which one feels right, and then continue the song to see where it goes.”
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“I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.”
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“I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.”
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