This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.Iris Dement
Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.
Iris Dement
For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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