If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning … - Ted Leo

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If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.

Ted Leo

If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it.

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I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song.

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Most of the time I wind up with a sleepily mumbled melodic line, sometimes with words, sometimes not. But then with my waking brain I have to decide whether it's worth. . . I mean, sometimes it's not worth it.

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Sometimes a loss that just comes out of left field rings in a very weird way when you have actually sort of relied on this small moment with this or that person, as a moment that actually has defined something for you in your life.

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I gotta make a living somehow, and make ends meet. I accept the idea of having a retirement.

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I think it's become such a part of younger people's daily life to have the instant access to each other that it sometimes gets a little presumptuous. People feel like it's OK, for example, to email you with some weird personal criticism they have.

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