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" I'm not that politically educated. "

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" What's quite nice about this whole folk movement is that it's born out of genuine friendship. And nobody's infringing on anybody's space. "

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" The world that I know and the world that I come from is from the arts, and my wife's an artist, and I've been a musician since I left college, and there's tons of musicians I'd love to play. "

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" I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved. "

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" The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused. "

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