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

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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. "

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

" I find humming is very useful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Women hear rhythm differently than men. "

" Songs are more powerful than books. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time. "

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

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

" Life for me is about movement. "

" I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "