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Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

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Well, I'm still here. Didn't have to go to rehab, and I'm not broke.

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Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

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We are the people our parents warned us about.

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I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

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Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

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To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

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I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

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These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

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And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

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It's been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

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If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.

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And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

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At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

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Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

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I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

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If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

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Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

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Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

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My mother insisted that her children read.

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You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

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I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

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I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

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If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

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Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Jimmy Buffett

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

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Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

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Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

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I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

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People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

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Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

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I sell escapism.

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I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

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Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Jimmy Buffett

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

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