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A writer or any artist can’t expect to be embraced by the people. I've done records where it seemed like no one listened to them. You write poetry boo...

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I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

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Everything comes down so pasteurizedeverything comes down 16 degreesthey say your amplifier is too loudturn your amplifier downare we high all alone o...

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I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself.

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Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought...

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And then I walked out, straight through the twilight, treading the beaten earth. There were no dust clouds, no signs of anyone, but I paid no mind. I ...