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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.

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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

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It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record.

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Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about.

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I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.

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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.

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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.

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I think the audience for Limp Bizkit is probably not going to be particularly interested in what we're doing. I don't think they'll find much that satisfies them in what we do.

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With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.

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'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: February 20th, 1950

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