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“It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.”

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”

“They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.”

“Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.”

“And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can forget, that history puts a saint in every dream.”

"Time", Rain Dogs (1985).

“Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.”

“I worry about a lot of things, but I don’t worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven.”

“And someone will head south 'til this whole thing cools off.”

"Small Change", Small Change (1976).

“If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.”

"Misery is the River of the World", Blood Money (2002).