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I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Enjoy every sandwich.

When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was worse.

You can dream the American Dream
But you sleep with the lights on
And wake up with a scream

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.

Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.

I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.

I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.

I don't like piano solos.

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.

Send lawyers, guns and money; the shit has hit the fan.

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase.

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.

I was born to rock the boat. Some may sink, but we may float.

And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

Little old lady got mutilated late last night, werewolves of London, again.

At least I've had one foot in a very normal kind of life.

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

If you won't leave me, I'll find someone who will.

Dylan can do no wrong.

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies ... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

I like wherever I am. That's my big secret.

I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.

The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

The days slide by
Should have done, should have done, we all sigh ...

You're suppose to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things.

All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

You used to be the best to make life be real to me,
and I hope that you're still out there and you're like you used to be

I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.

We buy books because we believe we are buying the time to read them.

They say love conquers all
You can't start it like a car
You can't stop it with a gun.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.

Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

I read things I didn't know I'd done,
It sounded like a lot of fun.

Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

Cachet - isn't that like panache, but sitting down?

Piano is like drudgery.

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence
helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

I have no guitar technique.

Regrets are so far from reality.

I don't get depressed and I don't get bored

I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.

My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
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I'm not a big jazz fan.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.

I've been to Paris. And it ain't that pretty at all.

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.