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I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

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Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

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Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

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I'm very pleased with the body of work we presented, ... really an apples to oranges.

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I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

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I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

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I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.

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They're a nation with different needs. A substantial portion of their population lives under the poverty level. We live in a very prosperous country, ... Hats off to the kids (from Zimbabwe) for standing up and doing what they did. Zimbabwe had done a really nice job meeting the pressing needs in their country.

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The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

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I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

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I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

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What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

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I don't do live things.

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It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

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There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

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The bar has come up, and it's going to be very competitive. We stack up reasonably well in the morning round. Our chief competitor in the morning round is Russia.

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I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

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I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

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There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

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When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

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I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

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I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

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We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

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