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When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television.

But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.

I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.

My parents taught us it's important to give back.

Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back.

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

I didn't want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life. I was bulimic and needed to heal.

There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.

I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.

We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again. Chile has agreed, for the first time, to talk about sea access for Bolivia.

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

I'd like to move back to New Orleans.

I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.