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"We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise."
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"It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself."
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"I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em."
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"My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz."
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"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."
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"I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week."
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"How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know."
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"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."
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"I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer."
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"I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up."
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"Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band."
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"I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida."
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"Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own."
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"Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar."
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"There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples."
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"Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle."
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"We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson."
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"If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth."
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"I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour."
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"But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention."
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"What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song."
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