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Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

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My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

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I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

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I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

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So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

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We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.

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When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.

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Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

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We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

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Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: January 4th, 1960

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