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"Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext."

"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."

"I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person."
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"You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song."

"I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great."

"Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith."

"I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes."

"Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff."

"I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song."
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