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" From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it. "
Sound
Doing
Management
" I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was! "
Working
Tell
Artist
" I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible. "
Today
People
Music
" If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever. "
Rock
People
Love
" It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous. "
Band
Great
Back
" Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing. "
Our
Songs
Relate
" Music is escapism, it's entertainment. "
Escapism
Music
Entertainment
" Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it. "
You
People
Challenge
" The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess. "
Five
Other
Way
" The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music. "
People
Find
Great
" The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life. "
Opportunity
Ability
Back
" This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder. "
Want
Find
Home
" Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously. "
Drink
Used
Know
" To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well. "
Well
Us
Play
" We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing. "
Go
Greatest
Just
" We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people. "
People
Reason
New
" We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short. "
Audience
Short
People
" We play a long show, and you can't beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is. "
Road
Good
Long
" We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great. "
Live
Great
Sound
" We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of. "
Very
Out
Young
" When you are younger, you are running on that pure naive adrenalin, you don't have any real responsibility aside from making sure you get there and play. And there's usually someone there to help you do that! "
Play
Responsibility
Someone
" When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again. "
People
You
Look
" When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together. "
People
You
New
" You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything. "
You
God
Help
" You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation. "
Want
You
Your
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