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    Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world.

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    Everybody is so sure about everything these days. Just look at your horrible Facebook feed on the most recent tragedy that people are commenting on.

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    Fashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they can infect those around you or the people from the future and they can sing them for free too.

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    Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.

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    "He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of the best George Jones anecdotes I've ever read, like cocaine psychosis causing this personality called "the Duck.

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    [He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you have these polemical essay-type things going on for a couple decades now. Some of these music books are where you're going to see an anecdote of a person behaving without some kind of commentary.

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    I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.

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    I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

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    I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.

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    I'm shocked and surprised by people that are shocked and surprised that certain things in life are made up or not as true as you might believe them to be.

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    I'm sure we're going to find out one day that the brain is as worthless as the appendix.

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    In memoir, can you really tell the truth about yourself? You're not going to write about your little peccadilloes, like, "I like a finger in my ass during sex." Or whatever it is. You're not going to come out in typical everyday conversation and say that. That's something that's going to be only for a select few.

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    I think all good art is outsider art.

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    I think a pretty good modus operandi is to believe that everything we know is wrong. The stomach will be the key to depression or consciousness or we'll realize ants are smarter than people.

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    I think maybe it's my personality. People don't like my face.

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    It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.

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    It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

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    Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are usually the books you see on display at Barnes and Noble. These Internet writers are like literary terrorists to me. They're training as we speak. They're getting ready to invade. They're building an army.

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    Most of the answers to the world could be answered with our bodies.

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    Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.

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    So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

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    The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're comic and not tragic.

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    There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

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    There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot.

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    The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.

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    The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?

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    This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and analysis. The analysis is built into the anecdote. It has that right feel about it. It's not too scholarly, either.

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    We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

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    With my stuff, I think I've tried. I've been courted. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I've been courted to be someone who could sell a lot of books.

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    Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.

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    You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

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    I couldn't believe it. Something wasn't right. I thought, "Batman smokes cigarettes." I couldn't believe it. "Batman smokes fucking cigarettes." I walked away and saw that Batman was just this stupid guy dressed up in a rubber suit, just as afraid as I was, and that I lived in a lost place inside my own heart, where even Batman couldn't help me.

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    I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.

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    I walked up to the side of the mountain like I used to do when I was a little boy. I looked out over Rainelle and watched it shine. The coal trucks and the logging trucks were still gunning it through town. They were still clear cutting the mountains and cutting the coal from the ground. Then I heard my mother calling and it was like I was a child again.

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    Stories can actually rearrange continents if they're told long enough.

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    That night I dreamed about flying turtles and forest fires and fucking the earth...The next morning I awoke and I listened to the tree company tearing away the woods and the timber. I heard the chainsaws ripping outside my open window and I heard the dynamite exploding all the mountain tops away for the black rock below. And instead of feeling sad like I did most mornings, I felt something else now. I found myself saying, 'Explode. Explode you mountains. Rip them down you fuckers. Take this stinking dirt and leave this land with hatred and death.