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" 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. "

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" Living a very long time would be a very scary thing. "

" Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back. "

" Songs are more powerful than books. "

" 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. "

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

" Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. "

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

" 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. "

" It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasn't very hip. "

" 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. "

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

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

" My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials. "

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

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

" Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you. "

" I find humming is very useful. "

" But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve. "

" And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music. "

" My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. "

" There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie. "

" 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. "

" Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written. "

" I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself. "

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