Willard Wigan Quotes

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

Willard Wigan

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• I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

  

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• I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.

  

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• When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

  

  Willard Wigan
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