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" You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins. "

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" Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another. "

" I'm against people downloading music. "

" I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music. "

" If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime. "

" I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me. "

" Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard. "

" I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it. "

" I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it. "

" There's nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean? "

" Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap. "

" If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors. "

" You can't really write a full album about your missus. She'll start getting the wrong idea and start thinking I like her. "

" Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer. "

" You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that. "

" I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs. "

" My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think. "

" When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song. "

" I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything. "

" For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That's my opinion. "

" The charts are only relevant when you're top of them! "

" Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better. "

" We shouldn't need riot police at schools. "

" These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear. "

" I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad. "

" I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. "

" My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?' "

" We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world. "

" You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous. "

" As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear. "