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One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

Listen Never Old Old Stuff
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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 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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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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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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With all my imperfections on my head,
Anchor Imperfections Hauled Stream
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A well man at sea has little sympathy with one who is seasick; he is too apt to be conscious of a comparison favorable to his own manhood.

Sympathy Comparison Conscious Favourable
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Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

Account Anything Away Bank
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Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of Tai Chi' became the story to tell.

Became Came Chi Direct
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I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.'

About Casting Creative Different
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I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Actor Always Been Camera
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The striking thing about love and will in our day is that, whereas in the past they were always held up to us as the answer to life's predicaments, they have now themselves become the problem.

About Always Answer Become
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I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.

Actor Am Because Chi
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It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

Actor Agree Become Critics
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It is an obvious fact that when an age is torn loose from its moorings and everyone is to some degree thrown on his own, most people can take steps to find and realize themselves.

Age Degree Everyone Fact
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But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

Adventure Bill Cereal Did
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It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

Basis Century Chief Clinical
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While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

Boredom Dangers Decade Despair
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Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.

Created Destroyed Direction Effect
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Freedom is the possibility of development, of enhancement of one's life - or the possibility of withdrawing, shutting oneself up, denying and stultifying one's growth

Denying Development Enhancement Freedom
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Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

Based Dignity Freedom Human
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But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

About Also Audience Harder
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I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

Always Form Going Hollywood
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Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

Always Dangers Deals Fascination
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Abstraction Direct Direct Experience Experience
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I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.

Able Also Being Changing
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When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

100Years About Expose Film
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How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

About Changed Devices Experience
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