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" I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why. "

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" Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me. "

" We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels. "

" Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things. "

" I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies. "

" Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great friends. "

" These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas. "

" People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised. "

" Life for me is about movement. "

" Songs are more powerful than books. "

" Women hear rhythm differently than men. "

" I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience. "

" You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. "

" I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused. "

" Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love. "

" You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument. "

" The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music. "

" I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me. "

" I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow. "

" I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way. "

" There's no such thing as an original sin. "

" I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music. "

" I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic. "

" And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it. "

" People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard. "

" I find humming is very useful. "

" I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist. "

" I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises. "

" Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert. "

" I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale. "

" Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that. "