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People In Music Lie, But They Don't Expect You To Believe Them. People In Television Actually Expect You To Believe The Lies.

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People In Music Lie, But They Don't Expect You To Believe Them. People In Television Actually Expect You To Believe The Lies.

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Streetlife Serenader Never Sang On Stages, Needs No Orchestration, Melody Comes Easy, Need No Vast Arrangement To Do Their Harmonizing.

Slow Down You're Doing Fine You Can't Be Everything You Want To Be Before Your Time.

I Believe There Is A Time For Meditation In Cathedrals Of Our Own.

Sweetness Flows From Your Appearance And Your Beauty Makes Me Fall More In Love With You. Anytime I Feel Low, I Think About The Good Times You Have Given Me And Everything Seems Good Again.

There Will Be Other Words Some Other Day; That Is The Story Of My Life.

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You Should Never Argue With A Crazy Mind, You Ought To Know My Now.

I've Written A Bunch Of Stuff That No One's Ever Heard, And I Don't Know If They Ever Will. I'm Just Doing It For My Own Edification.

Well We're Waiting Here In Allentown For The Pennsylvania We Never Found For The Promises Our Teachers Gave If We Worked Hard If We Behaved So The Graduations Hang On The Wall But They Never Really Helped Us At All No They Never Taught Us What Was Real

Those Who Have Expressed Doubts And Misgivings About Their Ability To Live This Kind Of Life Shouldn't Try, Because Being A Musician Is Not Something You Chose To Be, It Is Something You Are.

Working Too Hard Can Give You A Heart-attack.

Artist - Musicians, Painters, Writers, Poets, Always Seem To Have Had The Most Accurate Perception Of What Is Really Going On Around Them, Not The Official Version Or The Popular Perception Of Contemporary Life.

You Want To Give People A Reason To Hate My Guts More? I'm Making More Money.

Some Folks Like To Get Away Take A Holiday From The Neighborhood. Hop A Flight To Miami Beach Or To Hollywood But I'm Talking A Greyhound On The Hudson River Line. I'm In A New York State Of Mind.

I Could Walk Away From Anyone I Ever Knew, But I Can't Walk Away From You.

You Can’t Go The Distance With Too Much Resistance

You May Be Wrong, But You May Be Right.

Sing Us A Song You're The Piano Man. Sing Us A Song Tonight. Cause We're All In The Mood For A Melody, And You've Got Us Feeling All Right.

As An Atheist You Have To Rationalize Things... Then You Have To Try And Make Some Sort Of Sense Out Of Your Problems. And If You Try And Find You Can't, You Have No Choice But To Be Good And Scared -- But That's Okay!

You Just Sit Home And Masturbate. The Phone Is Going To Ring Soon, But You Just Can't Wait.

And So My Child And I Came To This Place To Meet Him Eye To Eye And Face To Face. He Made My Daughter Laugh, Then We Embraced. We Never Knew What Friends We Had, Until We Came To Leningrad.

I Think Historically America Has Been Pretty Tolerant. It Seems When There's A Mass Influx From One Place, That's When It Becomes Problematic For Americans.

I Run Into People From The Lehigh Valley And Allentown All Over The World, And They're Obviously Doing Pretty Well. They Say, "oh, It's Pretty Nice There Now And There's A Lot Of New Businesses That Have Come Into The Area." Nobody's Telling Me, "yeah, I Left." Everybody Says, "you Know, I'm There. It's Great. It's Really Nice There, And You Made Our Town Famous."

Do What's Good For You Or You're Not Good For Anybody

Honesty Is Such A Lonely Word. Everyone Is So Untrue.

If You Could Only Hear What I Dream.

I Was Drawn To Boxing Because I Got Beat Up As A Kid. I Was The Kid With The Piano Books In A New York Neighbourhood.

I Always Wanted To Try To Be A Teacher Even Before I Was In The Music Business. I Liked History, And Good Teachers Made An Impact On Me.

I Actually Wrote The Song First As "well, It's 9 O'clock On A Saturday." That Bit. Then I Said, You Know What? It Needs Some Kind Of An Introduction To Kind Of Set The Mood And Set The Flavor. So I Just Played This Kind Of Cocktail Lounge Thing, The Hustle And Bustle Of Waitresses Going By - That Kind Of Thing.

Hustle And Bustle

People Pay A Lot Of Money To Go See Shows Now, They Don't Wanna Know About Your Technical Problems, Or If You're Not Feeling Good, They Don't Wanna Know We Have A Glitch. It's Their Night, You Better Do Something To Earn That Money.

They Say That These Are Not The Best Of Times, But They're The Only Times I've Ever Known.

I Think Music In Itself Is Healing. It's An Explosive Expression Of Humanity.

My Songs Are Like My Kids.

I Definitely Prefer Being A Lover Than A Fighter.

I Compare Songwriting To Childbirth. How Many Kids Can You Have Before Your Uterus Explodes?

You Can Speak Your Mind But Not On My Time.

Speak Your Mind

We Passed The Hash Pipe And Played Our Doors Tapes.

Rock And Roll Cola Wars, I Can't Take It Any More.

More Than Art, More Than Literature, Music Is Universally Accessible.

You're Having A Hard Time And Lately You Don't Feel So Good; You're Getting A Bad Reputation In Your Neighborhood. It's Alright, It's Alright; Sometimes That's What It Takes. You're Only Human, You're Allowed To Make Your Share Of Mistakes.

Musicians Now Find Themselves In The Unlikely Position Of Being Legitimate. At Least The Irs Thinks So.

It Should Be Easy For A Man Who's Strong To Say He's Sorry Or Admit When He's Wrong.

Your Mother Told You All That I Could Give You Was A Reputation.

She's Got A Way About Her, And Everywhere She Goes, A Million Dreams Of Love Surround Her, Everywhere.

Give A Moment Or Two To The Angry Young Man With His Foot In His Mouth And His Heart In His Hand.

Out Of Respect For The Things That I Was Never Destined To Do, I Have Learned That My Strengths Are A Result Of My Weaknesses, My Success Is Due To My Failures, And My Style Is Directly Related To My Limitations.

Musicians Want To Be The Loud Voice For So Many Quiet Hearts.

She's The Quiet Type Who's Into Heavy Metal.

I've Lived Long Enough To Have Learned, The Closer You Get To The Fire, The More You Get Burned.

Every Time I've Held A Rose, It Seems I Only Felt The Thorns

Don't Be Afraid To Try Again Everyone Goes South Every Now And Then.

I May Be An Antique Like The Stones, But Antiques Are Valuable.

Sergeant O'leary Is Walking The Beat, At Night He Becomes A Bar Tender.

This Is The Time To Remember Cause It Will Not Last Forever. These Are The Days To Hold Onto Cause We Won't Although We'll Want To.

I've Always Said About 50% Of What Happens At A Concert Has To Do With The Audience. If You Play For A Dead Audience You're Gonna Stink. If We Play For A Great Crowd We're Much Better. You Want 'em To Make Noise. It's Kinda Like Sex, If They Don't Make Noise, You Ain't Doin' It Right.

Ain't No Rainbows Shining On Me, Shades Of Gray Are The Colors I See.

Call Me A Joker, Call Me A Fool, Right At This Moment I'm Totally Cool.

I Would Say The Songs That Have Different Lyrics. I Always Write The Music First, And There's A Couple Of Songs On This Box Set That Have Different Lyrics From What Ended Up On The Final Recording.

Don't Go Changing, To Try And Please Me You Never Let Me Down Before.

I'm Carrying The Weight Of All The Useless Junk And Modern Man Accumulates.

We Didn't Start The Fire It Was Always Burning Since The World's Been Turning We Didn't Start The Fire No We Didn't Light It But We Tried To Fight It

I Keep Telling People: Don't Make Me The Poster Boy For Aa Because I Don't Know A Lot About Sobriety, But I Do Know A Lot About Drinking.

In Every Heart There Is A Room, A Sanctuary Safe And Strong, To Heal The Wounds From Lovers Past, Until A New One Comes Along

If You Tell Kids They Can't Have Something, That's What They Want.

When I Was A Young Musician, The Only Option Available To Pursue Secondary Education In Music Was To Attend A Classical Conservatory.

Let Me Go On Sleeping And I Will Lose Myself In Palaces Of Sand, And All The Fantasies That I've Been Keeping Will Make The Empty Hours Easier To Stand.

Videos Destroyed The Vitality Of Rock And Roll. Before That, Music Said, "listen To Me." Now It Says, "look At Me."

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They Say That No One's Gonna Play This On The Radio. They Said The Melancholy Blues Were Dead And Gone. But Only Songs Like These Played In Minor Keys, Keep Those Memories Holding On.

There's An Old Man Sitting Next To Me, Making Love To His Tonic And Gin.

Here I Am Starting A Franchise And I'm Gonna Be 65 Years Old. I Should've Started This In 1978... I Wrote Like 300 Songs And I'm Gonna Have To Re-learn Some Of Them!

The Piano Sounds Like A Carnival And The Microphone Smells Like A Beer. And They Sit At The Bar And Put Bread In My Jar And Say, Man, What Are You Doing Here?

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I Didn't Graduate High School, So I Never Got A Teacher's Education, I'm Mostly Self-read, Self-taught. I Always Loved Music, So I Would Probably Either Be In A Band With Another Group Of People, Or An Arranger, A Producer, A Musicologist, A Music History Guy, Something To Do With Music. Either That, Or I Would Probably Be In Jail. Or Dead.

Drank A Lot Of Take Home Pay.

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Don't Make Music For Some Vast, Unseen Audience Or Market Or Ratings Share Or Even For Something As Tangible As Money. Though It's Crucial To Make A Living, That Shouldn't Be Your Inspiration. Do It For Yourself.

I Always Wrote The Music First, And The Music Gave Me The Mood And The Lyrics Were Pretty Much Put In To Give You A Map, Where That Mood Came From And Where It's Going. But My First Love Was Really The Music Itself, And I Guess I've Gone Back To That.

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You Can Linger Too Long In Your Dreams.

Rock And Roll Just Used To Be For Kicks, Now A Days It's Politics.

For Whatever Reason, Not All People Are Born With The Particular Gift Of Being Able To Express Ourselves Through Music. And, Believe Me, It Is A Gift.

The Whole World Loves American Movies, Blue Jeans, Jazz And Rock And Roll. It Is Probably A Better Way To Get To Know Our Country Than By What Politicians Or Airline Commercials Represent.

Hot Funk, Cold Punk, Even If It's Old Junk, It's Still Rock And Roll To Me.

I'm In A New York State Of Mind

I'm Single But Interviewing.

They Are Sharing A Drink Called Loneliness.

I Did Write A Letter To The Archdiocese Who'd Banned The Song, Only The Good Die Young, Asking Them To Ban My Next Record.

I've Crashed My Car Three Times.

It's A Little Intimidating To Walk Into A Studio And Know That You're Going To Sing A Duet With Barbra Streisand.

Forced To Recognize Our Inhumanity, Our Reason Coexists With Our Insanity. And Though We Choose Between Reality And Madness, It's Either Sadness Or Euphoria.

Have You Listened To The Radio Lately? Have You Heard The Canned, Frozen And Processed Product Being Dished Up To The World As American Popular Music Today?

I'm A Statistic In A System That A Civil Servant Dominates.

Every Child Had A Pretty Good Shot, To Get At Least As Far As Their Old Man Got. But Something Happened On The Way To That Place. They Threw An American Flag In Our Face.

Some Of The Stuff I'm Writing Is Almost Like Hymns, Some Of My First Singing And Choral Experiences Were In Church, The Church Of Christ In Hicksville.

I'm Sure You Have Some Cosmic Rationale, But Here You Are With Your Faith And Your Peter Pan Advice.

We All End In The Ocean. We All Start In The Streams. We're All Carried Along, By The River Of Dreams.

We Are Living In A Time When American Popular Music Is Finally Being Recognized As One Of Our Most Successful Exports. The Demand Is Huge.

If You're A Very Unfulfilled Person You Might Have A Tendency To Turn To Crime.

Only The Good Die Young.

People In Music Lie, But They Don't Expect You To Believe Them. People In Television Actually Expect You To Believe The Lies.

Why Should I Worry, Why Should I Care? And Even When I Cross That Line, I Got Street Savoire Faire.

You're Not The Only One Who's Made Mistakes, But They're The Only Things That You Can Truly Call Your Own.

Oh, She Takes Care Of Herself. She Can Wait If She Wants. She's Ahead Of Her Time. Oh, And She Never Gives Out. And She Never Gives In. She Just Changes Her Mind.

So I Would Choose To Be With You, That's If The Choice Were Mine To Make, But You Can Make Decisions Too, And You Can Have This Heart To Break

Lawrence Of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

Lawrence Of Arabia

They Say There's A Heaven For Those Who Wait, Some Say It's Better I Say It Ain't.

So Before We End And Then Begin We'll Drink A Toast To How It's Been A Few More Hours To Be Complete A Few More Nights On Satin Sheets A Few More Times That I Can Say, I've Loved These Days.

You've Got To Be Hard, Like The Rock In That Old Rock & Roll.

There's Nothing Better Than Good Sex. But Bad Sex? A Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwich Is Better Than Bad Sex.

If I Traveled All My Life And I Never Get To Stop And Settle Down Long As I Have You By My Side There's A Roof Above And Good Walls All Around You're My Castle, You're My Cabin And My Instant Pleasure Dome I Need You In My House 'cause You're My Home.

I Consider Myself To Be An Inept Pianist, A Bad Singer, And A Merely Competent Songwriter. What I Do, In My Opinion, Is By No Means Extraordinary.

I'm Writing For The Sake Of Writing Music. Whether It Gets Heard Or Not Isn't An Issue For Me. It Keeps My Own Juices Going And My Mind Active.

In An Age Of Incompetence, I've Been Able To Last In This Crazy Business. I Actually Know How To Play My Ax And Write A Song. That's My Job.

Hope You Don't Think This Is Billy Joel Unplugged. I'm A Piano Player. I'm Already Unplugged.

Advice Is Cheap; You Can Take It From Me.

She'll Carelessly Cut You And Laugh While You're Bleeding.

Someday We'll All Be Gone, But Lullabies Go On And On / They Never Die, That's How You And I Will Be

So You Play Your Albums And You Smoke Your Pot And You Meet Your Girlfriend In The Parking Lot Oh, But Still You're Aching For The Things You Haven't Got, What Went Wrong? And If You Can't Understand Why Your World Is So Dead And Why You've Got To Keep In Style And Feed Your Head Well, You're Twenty One And Still You Mother Makes Your Bed And That's Too Long.

I Was Listening To Stuff And I Realized That I've Had A Lot Of Different Lives. You Know The Theory [that Says] Every Seven Years, You Have A Different Life? I Think That's True.

I Never Stopped Writing Music, I Just Stopped Writing Songs. I've Been Writing Music Continually Ever Since The Last Album Of Original Tunes, "river Of Dreams" In '93.

Usually When I'm Writing, I Try To Write Fairly Quickly. If A Song Sits Around Too Long, It Starts To Take On A Stink. Most Of My Songs Are Written In One Sitting, Two Sittings Maybe. Those Are The Ones I Like The Best, Anyway.

Slow Down You're Doing Fine You Can't Be Everything You Want To Be Before Your Time Although It's So Romantic On The Borderline Tonight Too Bad But It's The Life You Lead You're So Ahead Of Yourself That You Forfeit What You Need Though You Can See When You're Wrong

There's Always A Place For The Angry Young Man With His Fist In The Air And His Head In The Sand. He's Never Been Able To Learn From Mistakes, He Can't Understand Why His Heart Always Breaks.

Even Though I'm In Love, Sometimes I Get So Afraid.

If You Search For Truthfulness, You Might As Well Be Blind.

Maybe This Won't Last Very Long But You Feel So Right And I Could Be Wrong. Maybe I've Been Hoping Too Hard. I've Gone This Far And It's More Than I Hope For.

Yes, They're Sharing A Drink They Call Loneliness But It's Better Than Drinkin' Alone.

Some Love Is Just A Lie Of The Heart, The Cold Remains Of What Began With A Passionate Heart.

I Don't Belong In Limos Or Private Jets Or On Stage With People Cheering Me But That's What's Kept Me Grounded Because I Know It's Not Right.

Like A Boxer In A Title Fight, You Have To Walk In That Ring Alone.

I Was Thinking Of The Four Seasons, Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, And When I Was Thinking "uptown Girl!" I Was Trying To Sing Like Frankie Valli. They Had A Song Called "ragdoll," Which Was About A Poor Girl And A Rich Guy. So I Just Flipped It Around And Made It About A Rich Girl And A Poor Guy.

And You Know That When The Truth Is Told That You Can Get What You Want Or You Can Just Get Old.

Though You Can See When You're Wrong, You Know You Can't Always See When You're Right.

In Hell There's A Big Hotel Where The Bar Just Closed And The Windows Never Opened. No Phone So You Can't Call Home, And The Tv Works, But The Clicker Is Broken.

We All Have A Face That We Hide Away Forever, And We Take Them Out And Show Ourselves When Everyone Has Gone.

When I Look At Great Works Of Art Or Listen To Inspired Music, I Sense Intimate Portraits Of The Specific Times In Which They Were Created.

Some People Stay Away From The Door For The Chance Of It Opening Up.

In Every Heart There Is A Room, A Sanctuary Safe And Strong, To Heal The Wounds From Lovers Past, Until A New One Comes Along... So I Would Choose To Be With You. That's If The Choice Were Mine To Make. But You Can Make Decisions Too. And You Can Have This Heart To Break. And So It Goes, And So It Goes. And You're The Only One Who Knows.

Following A Code Of Silence, You're Never Gonna Lose The Anger.

And The Only People I Fear Are Those Who Never Have Doubts... Save Us All From Arrogant Men, And All The Causes They're For.

Black And White Is How It Should Be, But Shades Of Grey Are The Colors I See.

Black And White

I'd Rather Laugh With The Sinners Than Cry With The Saints - The Sinners Are Much More Fun.

The Graduations Hang On The Wall, But They Never Really Helped Us At All.

I'm Kind Of Putting My Toe Back In The Water And Seeing How It Feels. We're Going To Be Doing Stuff We Haven't Done For Years And Years And Years. So I'm Looking Forward To Seeing How This Stuff Flies.

Where Have You Been Hanging Out Lately Honey? You Can't Dress Trashy 'til You Spend A Lot Of Money.

You've Got Yoga, I've Got Beer. You Got Overpriced, I Got Weird.

There Are People Who Have Lost Every Trace Of Human Kindness.

I'm A Piano Player. I Never Thought Of Myself As A Singer, At All. I Was Always Trying To Sound Like Somebody Else. I Don't Like My Own Voice, I Like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I Like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, People That Have An Edge In Their Voice.

I See The Children With Their Boredom And Their Vacant Stares.

I Can't Remember Faces, Don't Remember Names, But After Awhile And A Thousand Miles It All Becomes The Same.

Some People Find It's Easier To Hate.

When I See An Entire Community Disenfranchised, It Disturbs Me. Not That I'm A Message Guy, Per Se. I Write About People. I Like To Write About Human Beings, Not Crap Political Rhetoric. I've Tried To Avoid That All My Life. When I Wrote About Soldiers In Vietnam, I Wasn't Trying To Make A Political Statement. I Was Trying To Write About How Screwed Things Were For Soldiers, And How They Still Are.

I Believe That All Important Matters Have To Be Settled Here, Not In The Clouds Somewhere After We Kick Off.

I Look At Some Of The Songs I Wrote Years Ago And I Can't Believe I Wrote Such Crap.

What Will It Take For You To Believe In Me, The Way That I Believe In You?

Like Family, We Are Tied To Each Other. This Is What All Good Musicians Understand.

You May Never Understand How The Stranger Is Inspired For He Is Not Always Evil, And He Is Not Always Wrong.

I Would Not Leave You In Your Times Of Trouble. We Never Could Have Come This Far. I Took The Good Times, I'll Take The Bad Times, I'll Take You Just The Way You Are.

I'm Probably Writing Music Now For The Same Reason As I Started Writing Songs When I Was 14 - To Meet Women.

I Had A Melody And A Rhythm And Chords, But Nothing To Talk About. I Remember Reading About How The Decline Of The Steel Industry Had Been Affecting The Lehigh Valley, And I Decided That's What I Was Going To Write The Song About.

Hey Lord, Would Ya Look Out For Her Tonight, And Make Sure That All Her Dreams Are Sweet? Said Now, Would Ya Guide Her On The Roads, And Make Them Softer For Her Feet? Hey Lord, Would Ya Look Out For Her Tonight, And Make Sure That She's Gonna Be Alright, Until She's Home And Here With Me.

Most People You'd Tell "i'm Gonna Be A Musician," They'd Say, "you're Crazy, You're Gonna Starve, You're Gonna Be Poor, A Drug Addict, Go To Jail, You'll Never Make It, There's Too Much Competition, It's A Terrible Business," Etc. But My Chorus Teacher In High School Said, "you've Got What It Takes To Be A Really Good Professional Musician, You Should Consider It." That Was An Epiphany For Me. So I Thought, Well, Maybe I Can Help Somebody, Too.

All She Wanted Was Sax.

You've Given Me The Best Of You, But Now I Need The Rest Of You.

In A Way, We Are Magicians. We Are Alchemists, Sorcerers And Wizards. We Are A Very Strange Bunch. But There Is Great Fun In Being A Wizard.

Some People Stay Far Away From The Door If There's A Chance Of It Opening Up. They Hear A Voice In The Hall Outside And Hope That It Just Passes By.

I Always Thought Of Myself As The Piano Player In The Band. That, I Suppose, I'm Confident About, And I Guess My Songwriting Developed As I Went Along And I Got A Certain Amount Of Confidence In That. The Songs Are Like My Kids, I'm Proud Of All Of Them For One Reason Or Another.

I Am The Entertainer, I've Come To Do My Show You've Heard My Latest Record, It's Been On The Radio It Took Me Years To Write It, They Were The Best Years Of My Life It Was A Beautiful Song But It Ran Too Long If You're Gonna Have A Hit You Gotta Make It Fit So They Cut It Down To 3:05.

She Can Kill With Her Smile, She Can Wound With Her Eyes.

There Ain't Much Future For A Man Who Works The Sea, There Ain't No Island Left For Islanders Like Me.

It Feels Great To Have A #1 Album.

We Drown Our Doubts In Dry Champagne And Soothe Our Souls With Fine Cocaine. I Don't Know Why I Even Care, We Get So High And Get Nowhere.

Well I Never Had A Place That I Could Call My Very Own/that's All Right, My Love, 'cause You're My Home.

I Don't Care What Consequence It Brings, I Have Been A Fool For Lesser Things.

What If She Figures Out You're Not Very Smart?

Unanswered Questions

...and You're The Only One Who Knows.

Morning Inspirational

My Love For You

A Typical Day In The Life Of A Heavy Metal Musician Consists Of A Round Of Golf And An Aa Meeting.

You Get Paid Like A Really Good Call Girl. Walking Offstage Is Like The Walk Of Shame.

I've Come To Realize That Life Is Not A Musical Comedy, It's A Greek Tragedy.

I'm A Cosmopolitan Sophisticate Of Culture And Intelligence. The Culmination Of Technology And Civilized Experience.

I Look In The Mirror And Think, 'i Don't Look Like A Rock Star.' I Talked About This With Bono And We Looked At Each Other And Decided We Look Like A Pair Of Bricklayers.

We Might Be Laughing A Bit Too Loud, But That Never Hurt No One

I Hope It Does Not Take The Rest Of My Life Until I Find What It Is I've Been Looking For.

There's A Deep-seated Paranoia That Americans Have About Not Being Americans Or Something.

Move To California - My First Impression Of The Wild West.

First Impression

There Was Only Really One Accident That Was Kinda Bad But It Was Nothing To Do With Booze, Just Bad Luck... I Was Having A Hard Time A Couple Of Years Ago... I'm A Good Driver, I Just Had Bad Luck.

You'll Learn More From Your Accidents Than Anything That You Could Ever Learn At School.

I Really Wish I Was Less Of A Thinking Man And More Of A Fool Not Afraid Of Rejection.

I See The Winos Talking To Themselves And I Can Understand.

I Think Music In Itself Is Healing. It's An Explosive Expression Of Humanity. It's Something We Are All Touched By. No Matter What Culture We're From, Everyone Loves Music.

This Is Our Moment, Here At The Cross-roads Of Time. Time Is Relentless And As The Past Dissappears, We're On The Verge Of All Things New.

Do What You Love, And You'll Always Love What You Do

The Biggest Regret? This May Be One Of Those Years I Have No Regrets.

I Always Hated My Hair, So Now It's Going Away.

No Matter What Culture You're From, Everyone Loves Music.

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'our Parents' Generation Had It A Lot Tougher Than We Did. They Had To Live Through The Depression, World War Ii, And Then They Had To, You Know, Try To Pick Up The Pieces Of Their Lives And Bring Up Their Children. And, It Was A Great Example For Us. I Guess We Grew Up With A Certain Amount Of The Ethics Our Parents Had, Which Is, You Know: Work Hard, Make Your Own Way, Be Independent.

People Always Think I Was Just Playing In A Piano Bar, But I Only Did That For About Six Months. The Rest Of The Time I Was Playing In Bands.

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