"History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding."

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Jon Weisman

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“Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.”
“It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the drain, but if you make it you hit the moon.”
“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
“That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.”

Source : "A Conversation With Mojo Nixon". Interview with Samuel Barker, Rayanna Barker, www.rockzone.com. April 1, 2001.
“I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.”
“Writing is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name.”

Source : Judy Collins (2005). “Morning, Noon, and Night: Living the Creative Life”, p.30, Penguin
“Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.”
“I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.”

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