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My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

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Chris Isaak
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: June 26
Actor
Film Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Chinatown
Stockton
Christopher Joseph Isaak
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Truck
Miserable
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