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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

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We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.

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I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.

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I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

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It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all. I like 'Detective Frost.'

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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

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I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

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There is hardly a place in New York that you can't walk a block and a half and get a cup of coffee. Believe me, I've been all over the world. There's no place like that but New York City.

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Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.

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As a citizen, hopefully I'm humanist. As an artist, I'm free.

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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

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I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. We're not kings and queens. Anybody can play it.

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In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

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The reason we did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' and 'Gloria' on 'Horses' was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.

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Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

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I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.

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My sunglasses are like my guitar.

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I remember when the Bic pen was controversial. They came from France. They were cheap, and when one was out of ink, you threw it away; you didn't dip it into more ink.

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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

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I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

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I never thought I was gonna live to 30.

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My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.

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Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

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Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.

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Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

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I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

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As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

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I try not to give too much advice, really, because people have to do their things their way. I got lots of advice when I was young, and I ignored most of it - the good and the bad.

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My mother answers all my fan mail.

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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

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I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.

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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

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New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.

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The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

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I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer.

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