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You just have to follow your own heart.
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Love is my family. I would die for them.
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Dies
Love Is
My Family
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Everywhere I go I'm always spotted on the streets.
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Use minds to solve problems, not lies and bullets.
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Lying
Mind
Use
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You kind of have to have a cynical thing sometimes.
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Cynical
Kind
Sometimes
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I appreciate CD's, but I've been digital for 10 years.
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Appreciate
Cds
Years
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I must always march on in my life. What's done is done.
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Done
March
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I have to stay positive and live for today and tomorrow.
Richard Patrick / Musician
Live For Today
Stay Positive
Today And Tomorrow
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I was always getting my way. I was always the guy saying yes or no.
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Guy
Saying Yes
Way
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Stop fighting and learn how to communicate honestly with each other.
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Communicate
Fighting
Honestly
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The fans have made my dreams come true. For that, I'm super grateful.
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Death
Dream
Fans
Grateful
Made
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My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do.
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Gun
Idols
Want
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My wife and children are the greatest force that keeps me sober and strong.
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Children
Strong
Wife
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I care about this crazy little planet and I would love to make a difference.
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Crazy
Differences
Making A Difference
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I've learned enough things the hard way to know we humans can make a difference.
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Differences
Making A Difference
Way
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There are are some dirty, greedy people out there, and unfortunately I know some.
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Dirty
Greedy
People
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There's never the same road. It's always, every time it's always a different road.
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Different
Different Roads
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I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.
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Perfect
Song
Writing
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To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time...To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer.
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Gun
Kind
Speak
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Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.
Richard Patrick / Musician
Beer
People
Thinking
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For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it’s awesome to be a part of that tradition.
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Giving
People
Relief
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CD's are amazing because you get the artwork, you get to look at the lyrics, you get to look at the behind-the-scenes photos or something.
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Behind The Scenes
Cds
Looks
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I just want to touch people's ears. I want to touch people's lives. I want to give them something they can release to towards their anger.
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Ears
Giving
People
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I buy digital music off of iTunes all the time. I Shazam something in an airport or in a club or something; I Shazam it, I buy it. I am fully digital.
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Airports
Clubs
Digital
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I worked with a lot of different, amazing people, but I was always like, "Dude, I'm sorry, you're going to have to trust me, we've got to do it this way!"
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People
Sorry
Way
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We live in a crazy time. Every other week, there's a school shooting. There's always some nutty thing and I've always wanted to kind of understand the crazy.
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Crazy
School
Shooting
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I call my wife and talk to my children four or five times a day. I've surrounded myself with great people and friends, plus I'm always willing to make amends.
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Children
People
Wife
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When you turn on the news, they don't say, "Hey, 2 Million kids went to school safely today...40,000 flights took place without incident." They don't say that.
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Kids
Hey
School
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I'm just a proud papa and it's nice to get that validation from my colleagues in the industry. You get up, you pull your pants down and you're like, "Here it is!"
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Nice
Proud
Validation
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You just have to follow your own heart. I listen to so many different kinds of music and at the end of the day you want to make a record that you're super proud of.
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Heart
Records
The End Of The Day
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I think 9/11 was a couple of thousand assholes in Afghanistan who ran rampant and just kind of did their thing and we could have gotten them in Tora Bora if that was handled better.
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Couple
Kind
Thinking
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The problem is that corporations have way too much power in Congress and the government and they're rigging the system so that they don't pay taxes, but we do. We pay for all these crazy wars they come up with.
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Government
War
Crazy
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I'm on this planet for another forty years at the most and I got a baby and a wife and I'm worried about their future and that kind of fear, that anger is spilling into my lyrics, I can't just sit back and talk about myself until I'm dead.
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Baby
Wife
Years
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I think that part of my success was the fact that I would literally threaten your life if you got in-between me and what I wanted to do with my music. I was so drunk and in-your-face and so ADHD and so unhinged that I kind of got what I wanted.
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Drunk
Faces
Thinking
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For me, we're all comfortable, we're all happy, hopefully, but at the same time something will happen and you have to kind of understand that phenomenon. You have to understand what's going on and I've always been fascinated by craziness and lunacy.
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Craziness
Kind
Phenomenon
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You can't just walk into someone's house and take $15 bucks out of someone's wallet and then walk out with their song. You can't do that. You got to know the difference between stealing from being cool to the band and paying them what they're deserved.
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Differences
House
Song
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Seeing my children makes me come most alive. I come home and I see my kids' faces light up when they see me at the door with my guitar case. They run to me, we hug. I never go beyond a few weeks without being in their presence, so they have adjusted quite well.
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Kids
Running
Children
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Nirvana's amazing, but they're just never going to find another one, there's no artist development anymore, you're never going to have a U2, you're never going to have a Bruce Springsteen, those guys didn't make it off of their first single and real artists probably won't make it off of their first singles.
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Artist
Guy
Real
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I can do whatever I want, I can have my band, I can use different people, I can use studio players, it's complete, total freedom for me. If I want to make a video, now that I own my own record company, if the video has an American flame being engulfed by a huge puddle of oil, I can do that, I can say that if I want to.
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Flames
Oil
Player
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