Me Quotes
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.
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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.
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For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
