If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
TOM WAITSIt’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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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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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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