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"As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there."
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"I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted."

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

"The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist."

"You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you know, the information that they offered to us from their aspect."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."
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"Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration."

"I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does."

"We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic."

"I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think."

"Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America."

"I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo."

"For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive."
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