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"So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours."
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"There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years."
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"I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in."
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"I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor."
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"I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years."
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"It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it."
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"I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written."
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"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy."
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"I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years."
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"You can only hold your stomach in for so many years."
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"I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor."
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"My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs."
Mother
"Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it."
Work
"Writing music is just something that I was born to do."
Music
"I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for."
Change
"You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas."
Woman
"Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song."
Day
"I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process."
Love
"In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same."
America
"All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together."
Sound
"I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge."
Discipline
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