Rick Moranis Quotes
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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I don't really know much about cars.
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I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.
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I wouldn't change a thing about my family.
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There's backlash about everything I do.
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We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
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Oh, I'm completely OCD about neatness.
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My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.
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Do what you're passionate about.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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the sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always to bring with it another, perhaps a deeper mystery. I doubt that the last, final mysteries of the sea will ever be resolved. In fact, I cherish a very unscientific hope that they will not be.
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Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
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The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.
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The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I write, the more I feel the force of the other urge, which collaborates with and completes the first one: the desire to know the Other from within him. To feel what it means to be another person. To be able to touch, if only for a moment, the blaze that burns within another human being.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.
