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" I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement. "

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" Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph. "

" I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. "

" The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star. "

" My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well. "

" I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike. "

" Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid. "

" I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination. "

" Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving. "

" I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. "

" Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life. "

" Most screen violence is tedious. "

" I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it. "

" The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new. "

" The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can't do it. I'm terrible at it. I get roped into films every now and then, and it's always a disaster. "

" Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing. "

" My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that. "

" Most of my ideals and stuff really come from my mother. "

" When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like. "

" I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really. "

" I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way. "

" Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you. "

" Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting. "

" I'm hugely self-critical in the morning. "

" I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar. "

" Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not. "

" I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs. "

" The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike. "

" One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done. "

" After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time. "

" I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so. "