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People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.
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For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.
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I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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I think it's very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don't talk about. That's why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.
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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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I don't find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with having sex, you know. At any age.
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Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.
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Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.
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Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.
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You can't always get what you want.
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.
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Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.
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I don't hate journalists. You can't hate a class of people. It's wrong to say that. But I do think they're a bit like poison. Never trust them. You can't trust them as a class of people. It's their job not to be trusted.
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Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because its very obviously French.
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Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.
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Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.
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Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.
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I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.
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Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.
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I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people.
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Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.
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