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" In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. "

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" When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion. "

" It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends. "

" When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice. "

" I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. "

" I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal. "

" There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas. "

" When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it. "

" I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. "

" I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question. "

" Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world. "

" I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology. "

" The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality. "

" I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so. "

" I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. "

" 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. "

" I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper. "

" I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap. "

" On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers. "

" Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't. "

" In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead. "

" I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry. "

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

" Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. "

" The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. "

" There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz. "

" If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy. "

" Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience. "

" I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians. "

" What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done. "

" I don't do live things. "