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Where you're from shapes you, but you can actually do whatever you want.
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.
I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn't faze anybody anymore.
I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.
And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.
I got a story, ain't no moral, I let the bad guy win every now and then.
every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain
Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.
Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.
My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed.
It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.
I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages
Better to live hundred years as a millionaire, than one week in poverty!
I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.
It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear
It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.
My father wasn't just taciturn - it was like he didn't want to be heard.
In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.
A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up.
Music doesn't solve your problems..but allows you to dance all over them
I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.
I can write a song about my hero Che Guevara and call it 'Song for Che.'
I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.
I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.
Asbury Park's a special place for me. It's where I really began playing.
I believe that people want to hear good songs and they want to be moved.
I'm affected by my environment. Los Angeles makes me defensive and wary.
I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.
I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.
Every time I have a song that does well, that's a great feeling to have.
My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.
I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.
Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.
You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.
Music is like an open sky. You know it's out there... and there you are.
I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.
I'm good at what I do but, to be honest, not a whole hell of a lot else!
All syncopation means is accenting beats that you don't normally accent.
I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.
I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.
I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.
I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right.
I would rather be trampled by thousands of children than touch a spider.