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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

Paul Simon

The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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Care Time Trick Yourself
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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Knife Life Music Myself Purity Sorrow
And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you
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Belief Doubt Known See Stand True Yourself
When I first heard Elvis perform “Bridge Over Trouble Water” it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
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Impossible Music Myself Song
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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Chance Goodness Improvement Leave
I don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.
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Beginning Known See Writing Yourself
The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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Laughter Myself Thinking
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.
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Description Fans Feeling Happiness Myself Pressure State
Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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Goodness Myself Thinking
I’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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Album Myself Record Writing
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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Abstract Beginning Creation Interesting Music Song Writing
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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End Grave Result
Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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Fire Life Room Walk
I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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Home Myself Winter
I don’t very often think I’ve done a good job. I don’t like the majority of what I do. I shouldn’t say I don’t like it, but I’m not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
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Goodness Majority Myself Satisfaction Thinking
Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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Burst Glory Song Sound

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