You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.
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When you write a lot of songs, sometimes you don't have a place for them, and you need an outlet for them.
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Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.
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I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.
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I've spent my life playing music.
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When you're a musician, a lot of time people help you out; they take pity on you. Family members will kind of come around and are like, 'Listen, I bought you a bunch of groceries because I know that you're a screwup.'
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I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: 'I built that!'
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I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.
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When you set out to carry on a tradition as deep rooted as folk music is, you've got to have your story together. You've got to study and have a foundation. Jeffrey Foucault has that foundation, and you can hear it in his voice, and feel it in his music. He's got an understanding that you don't hear that often.