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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep...An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

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I always wear the same thing onstage.

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I've always considered myself a writer.

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We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

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Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

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You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

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If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

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Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

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