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" I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album. "

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" I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six? "

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" For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about. "

" I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums. "

" One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. "

" That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. "

" But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but. "

" Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right. "

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" Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way. "

" I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. "