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I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.

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Popular is a tricky word. People in large numbers don't always have the best taste. I prefer to concentrate on songs that are deserving, but slightly too arcane to be in every household - the also-rans, the misfits, the hidden jewels.

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Probably 5 of the time you understand.

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You want the audience to be uncomfortable.

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But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

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Imagining playing the guitar is a slightly looser thing than playing it. You can hear more things sometimes. The fingers of your imagination aren't quite as hidebound as your real fingers.

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I'll try to imagine something and see what happens. But it usually winds up being about something fairly concrete and close to home.

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I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

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The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

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To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

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I take notes all the time, too. You know, something terrible happens to you, and you think, Bastards. I'm going to write a song about that. And then you do.

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I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

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I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

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This is the kind of surveillance system that really allows us to first identify how far the disease is spreading and then to rapidly move in and cull birds that might have been exposed and to clean areas to reduce the possibility that humans can become infected even from the droppings of these birds.

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They can't understand what you're doing and why you're saying what you're saying, and that might be the problem with the Discovery Institute.

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There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

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As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

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I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

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We're out to change America, ... Cats are hiding in homes and dogs are out on the street causing trouble. We're going to bring cats to the forefront.

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People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

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There are two worldviews that are in conflict. I do feel that even though Christians are 86 percent of the population, they have become second-class citizens.

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Compromises have been made -- this is not being taught in class. We don't advocate teaching intelligent design at this point.

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There were three pandemics in the last century. Most people alive today lived through two of them without really noticing them. This wasn't a major trauma to societies or economies or even to health systems. So pandemics can occur which have relatively minor effects.

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We were attempting to restore the culture of Britain for the British, ... But the English, in particular, aren't comfortable with their own culture. To be taken seriously, it has to come from somewhere else. So we remained a cult band.

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Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

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