Maybe I think too much for my own good.
PAUL SIMONThe dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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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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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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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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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
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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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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’
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