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" My particular space has always been quite unique in popular music. I have a background in R&B and hard rock and straight pop, but I never went all the way with any of those genres. "

Donovan

Way

Always

Music

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" Part of being a pop star is image. I'm told by many of my female fans that I was the poster on their bedroom walls. But if I only had that - the image and the beauty and the curly locks - I would have been a 'normal' pop star, one who comes and goes after one hit record. "

" The Faces are my old chums. We used to hang out. "

" I became a recluse many times and enjoyed a private life I didn't have during the '60s. "

" My dad would always ask, 'How's the money?' but I was never interested. Millions came and went, stolen by the robbers in the music industry. But as someone said, 'You'll never be poor as long as you can pick up a guitar.' "

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" It's not like me and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr hang out every week, but we keep together in promoting Transcendental Meditation. "

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" I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17. "

" There's only one thing, in the end, and that's singing truth in a pleasant way. "

" The 'Bohemian Manifesto' represents those that actually have to step out of society because they cannot join, but then they become the saviors of society because they create the actual possibilities of change. "

" I can't help it: when something strikes me, I write it down. "

" Myself and The Beatles thought surely there was a way through our fame and success to bring something to our generation to help chill the future out. "

" I first met Linda Lawrence in March 1965 in the green room of 'Ready Steady Go!,' the British pop TV show. Linda was a friend of one of the co-hosts. She had an art-school vibe, and after a brief conversation, I asked her to dance to a soul record playing. As we jazz danced, I fell in love. "

" The audiences used to say, 'Are you a Donovan fan or a Dylan fan?' It was all very naive, really. "

" Honors and awards are very interesting, and I truly accept them. I have very high regard for what they mean. What they mean is that they're pointing to the work. "

" Rock and jazz came together in a very powerful way on 'Barabajagal.' "

" I've exhibited quite a few of my photographs. I expand them digitally till they're very big. It's an art school thing, I suppose. "

" Having had polio never held me back as I got older. Although having one leg smaller than the other isn't much fun, I could always get about without any trouble. Luckily, in the music industry, everyone was only interested in my singing and playing and not the size of my legs. "

" Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of boots. "

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" Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry. "

" With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape. "

" My father was a part of that generation, and my mother, too - the late-'30s, early-'40s big-band generation. Frank Sinatra, Art Blakey, Gene Krupa, Billie Holiday - all that stuff was in my background. "

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" My guitar-playing always included bass lines, melody lines, and rhythm-guitar grooves. "

" All of us '60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and an art school. "

" In 1968, I bought a 114-foot yacht, built in 1946, and lived on the Greek islands for a while. We had an extraordinary time in it. Then I gave it to The Beatles. "