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Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

Energy Magic Night Perfect
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Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.
Claim Dictator Even Right
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That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

Because Believe Got Say
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The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
Guitar Important Important Part Most
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The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

Anymore Business Interest Me
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There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

Amount Only Time Want
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These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

Each Nice Other Possible
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When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

Album Close Get Moment
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You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

Ask Because Explain Lyrics
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If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
Chords Jazz More Than
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I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

Like Mine Nostalgia Unless
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I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
Drinking Give I Tried Tried
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You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.

Bass Beat Drums Guitars
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People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

Chi Out People Think
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The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

All People Die Dying Else
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Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

About Career Doing Going
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The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.

Any Better CDs Chance
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I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.

Beer Cans Caused Cities
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I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

Anybody Best Compass Else
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I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

Level Like Novels Opera
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It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

Albums Around Depressing Out
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I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?

Amount Chorus Diamonds Mean
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You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

Musician Play You What
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I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

Albums Anything Little Me
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Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

About Beads Closed Complicated
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I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.

Adjusted Become Being Cult
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For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

About Anything Felt Kind
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I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

Am Genuinely Guy I Think
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I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room.
Anything Being Create I Can
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

Andy Better Even Imagine
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A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

Cherished Little Nonsense Wisest
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Little Much Reverse Strike
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

Few Hours Anywhere Fabulous
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Difference Hours Fiction Leaves
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
Boarding School Home Living
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

Anyone Murdered Little Possible
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Autobiography Boring Book Life
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So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

Bookcase Lovely Please Throw
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
Become Writer Person Absolute
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Fiction Fear Demands Whether
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A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

Caused Empty Fact Feelings
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I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

Air All My Time Art Beautiful
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In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Allowing Always Bed Been
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Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Animal Another Easily Heart
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Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Clothed Dignity Each Face
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When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Action Alive Author Before
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

Anyone From Time To Time Gentleman Heroic
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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Above Beasts Does Every
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Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

Because Born Character Created
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Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Creation Even Her Higher
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