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I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

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The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

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I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

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When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

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I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

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I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

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I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

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It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

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I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

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That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 7th, 1951

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