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If I Think Of The Audience Too Much, Then I'm Going To Start Catering To Them...and It Turns Into Entertainment. And I've Got Time For Entertainment; I'm Just Not At All That Interested In Doing It Myself. I'd Rather Go For Some Pretty Raw Expression.

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If I Think Of The Audience Too Much, Then I'm Going To Start Catering To Them...and It Turns Into Entertainment. And I've Got Time For Entertainment; I'm Just Not At All That Interested In Doing It Myself. I'd Rather Go For Some Pretty Raw Expression.

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We Are Occupants. No One Has Any Lasting Purchase On Life Or On The Planet.

As So Much Music Is Listened To Via Mp3 Download, Many Will Never Experience The Joy Of Analog Playback, And For Them, I Feel Sorry. They Are Missing Out.

But I Have A Good Life. I Enjoy What I Do. I Am Married To Work.

There's A Lot Of Stuff Like That That American's Don't Know And Since A Lot Of Americans Don't Have A Passport, I'll Get A Passport For Them And Since A Lot Of Americans Don't Know What A War Looks Like Thirty, Forty Years Later And It's Still Doing Damage.

Life Is A Hurdle And You'll Never Clear It. Death Is The End Of The Ride And You Fear It.

I Was In Pakistan In Islamabad When Bhutto Was Assassinated, And The Next Day, You Know, There's Just Plumes Of Smoke Everywhere. I Mean, Islamabad Is On Fire.

I Have Been Curious About Haiti For Many Years. The History Of The Country Is As Fascinating As It Is Turbulent.

I Don't Cuss In Songs. It's Too Easy.

What If Americans Were All Judged By The Actions Of The Bush Administration And People Did Not Know The Truth? That America Is Full Of People Who Are, At Present, Poorly Represented And Poorly Catered To By The Media.

I Have Come To Regard November As The Older, Harder Man's October. I Appreciate The Early Darkness And Cooler Temperatures. It Puts My Mind In A Different Place Than October. It Is A Month For A Quieter, Slightly More Subdued Celebration Of Summer's Death As Winter Tightens Its Grip.

I'm Not Artistic Nor Am I All That Creative.

The History Of Apartheid-era South Africa Is Incredibly Sad And At Times Infuriatingly Incomprehensible.

Young, Gay And Stuck In Arkansas? Sounds Like A Horror Flick.

I Enjoy Helping. I Like Doing Benefits And Things Like That, But Don't Feel The Need To Be Thanked Or Even Meet The People I Am Doing The Benefit For.

'smile' Is Perhaps The Beach Boys' Most Legendary Album. It Was Recorded In 1966 And 1967 But Only Saw A Formal Release In 2011. That's A Long Time To Wait For What Was Said To Be Brian Wilson's Masterpiece.

I Was Raised In Washington, Dc, Very Violent Place. I Grew Up With Violence. My Introduction To Music Was Violent. The Years I've Spent On Tours, Some Of That Was Extremely Violent.

If There Is One Set Of Laws, One Constitution For Every Citizen, Its Protections Hopefully Applied Equally To All, Then Why Do The Results Seem To Differ So Radically? What Do You Call That? Look Around - You're Living In It.

I'm Not Exactly Ambitious As Much As I Have A Very Good Realization Of What I Am And What I Am Capable Of.

I Get Angry About Stuff, I Get Very Emotionally Intense About Stuff And That's How I Get It Out - With Books, With The Band, On My Own Onstage, But It's Always Kind Of A Wail.

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