Cass McCombs Quotes
When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.
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I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
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One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That's when the main title song, 'I'll Be There for You', by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.
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I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.
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You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.
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If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.
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Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
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In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It was mostly covers of favorite songs, and there were three originals in there. So, it feels like it was just my album to see what the temperature of the water was.
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Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
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Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.
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The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.
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Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
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Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversation starter. Nor was it a favoured activity for dysfunctional couples or suffering individuals.
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I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.
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I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.
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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
