"A friend of mine pointed out to me, "Why do you separate your writing and your music?" I got (writers) Rick Moody and Jonathan Ames to do the first one, and it just kind of gathered steam; then NPR picked it up. It is a nice way for me to marry both sides of my career, a move that's probably culminated in me dropping the name John Wesley Harding."

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John Wesley Harding

#Nice Quotes #Moving Quotes #Writing Quotes

“You can change your life, and you can heal yourself.”
“Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.”
“I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.”
“Makeup should be fun, not fascist.”
“I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.”
“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.”
“God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing.”
“My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.”

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