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The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.
I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.
Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.
The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.
Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.
I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.
I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.
I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.
Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.
Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.
My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.
Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.
When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.
You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.
Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't
The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.
We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust.
Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me.
Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.
There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.
I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.
I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them.
I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].
The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.
I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.
I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts.
Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.
You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark
There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending.
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.
[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.
And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold We swore blood brothers against the wind I'm ready to grow young again
Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air.
Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain Let the brokenhearted love again Sherry, we can run with our arms open before the tide.
For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.
With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair.