All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSAnd the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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I was always laughing in church.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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