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I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
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My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
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My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.
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I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
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This Life is More than Just a read through.
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The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.
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There were times when all Hillel and I had was each other. We were fucked up and understood what it was to be living in an out-of-control fog. (Scar Tissue, 2004).
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I'm impressed with a 90 year old woman who's still out and about.
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I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.
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I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
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What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.
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I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.
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Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.
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Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.
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We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.
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I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.
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Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
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It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level.
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I’m not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesn’t speak to me, and tempeh is so-so. I’ll savor a solitary apricot that’s been kissed by my baby.
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We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.
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I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.
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Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.
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The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.
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Your mouth was made to suck my kiss.
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