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I love all board games, actually, apart from backgammon. I can never remember the rules.
I can't pretend that I'm just a friend... 'cause I'm thinkin' maybe we were meant to be.
It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.
Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence.
I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.
Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.
If only you could pack up everything you love, and everyone who'd ever been your friend.
Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.
Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth.
It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.
I know, you love me and soon you will see, you were meant for me and I was meant for you
I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases.
Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.
You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.
And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.
I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.
My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.
My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.
I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.
Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.
Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.
I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.
Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.
As you know, the business is cyclic with styles. It's no different from clothing styles.
If you continue to dream, if you never abandon your dream, it will come true in the end.
I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.
We should all believe in something, and I believe it's time for another shot of tequila.
If entertainment years were dog years, man, Id be like Gandhi. Id be like 250 years old.
I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.
I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.
After 'Nine Million Bicycles', I was sent bikes from all over the world. I got about 10.
You need to be happy with who you are and, whoever that is, let your little light shine.
I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.
I wanted to make youthful, irreverent anthems. Parents might not get it, but kids would.
It's a great place to be as an artist: if you confuse your label, you're doing your job.
I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.
If I had known I'd be on Matador back then in my childhood, it would have blown my mind.
Sold my soul long ago, nothing left to choose. I will follow Satan. Dancing in the dark.
Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.
Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.
A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.
And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty.
Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.
The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living.
I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it.
People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.
Just when I think it couldn't get any bigger, 'Tuskegee' reaches a new level of success.