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"I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing."
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"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."
"People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences."
"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
"I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing."
"When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it."
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