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" Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky. "

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" A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. "

" I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents. "

" As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself. "

" There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist. "

" Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do. "

" I was never particularly fond of my voice. "

" I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original. "

" That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one. "

" You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines; you're not going to get played on radio, and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth. "

" Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. "

" I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them. "

" Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties. "

" Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in. "

" I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. "

" It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece. "

" I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls. "

" I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I'd be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music. "

" With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There's nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line. "

" I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely. "

" To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me. "

" I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering. "

" All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it. "

" For me, often, there's such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I'm going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don't know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief. "

" I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever. "

" My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity. "

" Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write. "

" I'm not very articulate. "

" For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in. "