"The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture."

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"The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture."

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"Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world."

Artist

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Malice

"People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know."

People

"I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question."

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"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."

Past

"I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer."

Folk

"I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest."

Cloud

"What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done."

Disappointment

"I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal."

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"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."

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