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There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.
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Study up on the Eastern religions. They're the only ones that are realistic. There's no answer, see.
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For a musician to be good, he has to have humanity and care about the other guy. And as for blues - in a sense, black people have kept this country alive and given us our entire musical heritage.
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I don't recall what the first record I bought was, but I definitely remember hearing Creedence's 'Born on the Bayou' and going out and buying it. The guitar and drums in that band were really good. I loved the words to the title track, and Fogerty's voice sounded just great.
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The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'
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My sister tells me I began singing before I could even talk. My first performance was of a song called 'My Blue Heaven,' which I began singing when I was a year and a half.
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I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.
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I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys always win, whereas in reality, most of the sheriffs were as bad as the gangsters they were after.
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I've always been a searcher - you know, a hunter. I'm certainly not the only one. They say actors shouldn't get political and everything, but you can't separate yourself. You can't disconnect yourself from anything.
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I'm very fortunate. I don't think anyone should have a job that they don't really enjoy.
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I was in a movie called 'Twister,' and in it, I had to hit a golf ball off of a roof with a driving wood. The guy who owned the place where we shot showed me how to do it, and I hit the ball about 150 yards.
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The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.
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Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.
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Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
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I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.
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But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
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You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.
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I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie 'Christine,' and I would've been a leading man after that. I would have played a private investigator. And I was offered a great deal - I would be involved in the direction, casting, everything, and whatever. It was whatever an actor wants, and I didn't take it.
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The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.
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You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
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I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.
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I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.
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I was the classic killer. I always played an angry man. I think it was because I used to really be like that - I was hostile. And because I had a good sense of theatrical truth, I used my anger and rebelliousness and just went with it. Anger was just a part of me.
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I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and be all the things you just don't have time to be in your lifetime. I could get to learn about all of them.
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I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.
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I like to watch 'Paris, Texas,' but I have no desire to see it. I did it.
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I hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I was angry, because that's what I projected. I was angry at my mother and father because they didn't get along, angry at the church. On top of that, I had an extreme lack of self-confidence.
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Fame in itself is, you know... It involves a whole discussion on just that word, 'fame.' It's a power; it's another degree of power, to be famous. I think it's obvious: you have more influence the more well-known you are. And, hopefully, it's righteously used.
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'Paris, Texas' is the first film that I've totally cared about, the first movie I totally wanted to do - and that after 27 years that I considered my prison term.
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'Alien?' Oh, yeah. I still get fanmail almost every week, pictures from all over the world on that movie. That's one of the most popular films I've done.
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When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.
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My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.
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I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.
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