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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

I feel like we were married from the moment we sat down there.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that.

Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.

I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row.

Where were they when the Russians went down?

Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

In the end, that's what it comes down to with Mitt Romney. He's running as the non-Barack Obama.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.

When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

When you've got your man down, rub him out.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.