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.
TOM WAITSWell you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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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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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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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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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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