I don’t feel any pressure from fans. But I’m always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That’s not to say that I’m not happy.
PAUL SIMONArtie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn’t really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.
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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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I don’t think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn’t really escape the influence.
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Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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And she said ‘Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you’re blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.’
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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