- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you put a book together and arrange it, there's a lot of anxiety and turmoil about what order the poems should be in.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don't. If you have that inside of you and can't get it out, what do you do?
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you're working with; otherwise, you're not gonna come out with something that's really you.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
- Digestive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have type AB- blood, which is the rarest blood type. It's less than 1 percent of the whole population of the world, and it means that you don't have as many digestive enzymes.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.
- Dinosaur
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why wouldn't you be afraid of a Komodo dragon? It's a dragon. It's a dinosaur.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're in scenes with a guy you know really well in a comedy, you tend to crack each other up too much.
- Talk
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- Nov 07, 2020
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020