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(When asked for advice for younger musicians) "Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold."

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The face forgives the mirror, the worm forgives the plough, the question begs the answer, can you forgive me somehow?

Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk.

If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.

And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can forget, that history puts a saint in every dream.

It's kind of like borrowing the same ten bucks from somebody over and over again.

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