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" I really had to think and learn about musical intervals. "

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" Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana. "

" If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am. "

" I think I surprise myself. "

" I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian. "

" I'm a grandfather now. "

" There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go. "

" The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone. "

" I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band. "

" It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer. "

" There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick. "

" The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in. "

" So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture. "

" I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time. "

" Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car. "

" We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter? "

" To rock isn't necessarily to cavort. "

" I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could. "

" You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it. "

" You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you. "

" My dad played fiddle as well. "

" The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard. "

" I hate cliche. "

" I still like to get carried away - but passively. "

" The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in. "

" I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl. "

" Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion. "

" People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you. "