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Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you'll get 85 percent there on a song and the last 15 percent will elude you for three years.

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Stephan Jenkins
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 27
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Oakland
California
Stephan Douglas Jenkins
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My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.
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You probably became a musicians because you're into it so stay that way. Don't believe that someone else has the golden ticket for you because they don't.
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I play video games, dude!
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Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
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Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.
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That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.
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