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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once I rented a log cabin.
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I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
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I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.
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I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
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I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.
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I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
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I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
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If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.
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Be kind, man - don't be mankind.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
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I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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