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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.

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The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Cold Dance Hard Music Way
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself

I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.

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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.

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