The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

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I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.

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The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

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I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

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The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

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I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

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Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

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After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

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I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

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Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

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