The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went online. Then I had two or three weeks and I said, wow, that essay was pretty good. Maybe I'll try and write some other stuff. Writing about the depression, I just felt - you know, when you write a book like this, you have to open up your life. You have to be willing to do so to a certain degree.

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It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

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We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

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care together sometimes

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

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innocence holding-on challenges

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

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dream inspirational life

The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

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passion heart country

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

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new-beginnings motivational inspirational

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

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music world art

For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.

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kissing talking romantic

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

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girl running inspirational

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

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someday seems looks

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.

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magic littles night

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

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winning

You can't start a fire without a spark

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sparks fire

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

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rise-above

When they built you brother they broke the mold.

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broke mold brother

If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.

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growing-up fashion jobs

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

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luck

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

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rock-n-roll adults answers

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

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doubt men religion

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

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rich kings men