The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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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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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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