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"I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

"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."

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