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" Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big. "

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" I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death. "

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" I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties. "

" I've never been jealous of anybody's success. I've been flummoxed by it because I don't understand it, but I'm not jealous of it. "

" I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later. "

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" I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love. "

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" And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened. "

" Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help. "

" I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano. "

" As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it. "

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" I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next. "

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" At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels. "

" I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it. "