I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
PAUL SIMONI 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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By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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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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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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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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So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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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 have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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The 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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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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