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" Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write. "

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" I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them. "

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" I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. "

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" All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it. "

" Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties. "

" Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself. "

" The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute. "

" The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever. "

" With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There's nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line. "

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" I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players. "

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" There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist. "

" I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. "

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