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The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.
The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.
My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.
When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.
I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.
I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet.
America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.
This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.
I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.
Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.
When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .
I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.
How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.
Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
I prefer Christmas, which is everybody's holiday. It's just my nature. I don't like to be zeroed in on en masse.
When I felt that fame - people were nosing me out - well, I moved on. I used traveling names; wigs if necessary.
You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.
What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.
They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing.
Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.
I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.
When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.
He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.
I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.
I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.
Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.
Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.
Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.
A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.
They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.
You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out.
All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.
Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew there was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too.
I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.
I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.
The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.
But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.
people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.
Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.
When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.
Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.
If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can
I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.