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" I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer. "

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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 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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" 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. "

" 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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" 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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