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The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.

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Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

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I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

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Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

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My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

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I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.

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Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.

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If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned.

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I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

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If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped me out with lines I shouldn't have known, chords I shouldn't have known. Every once in a while I get lines from somewhere, and I think, I better write this down.

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I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive.

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I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.

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I was a piano player before I was a poet.

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There are no signposts in the sea.

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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

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No human creature can give orders to love.

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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

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