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"I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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"I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."
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"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."
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"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
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"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."
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"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."
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"The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one."
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"I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly."
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"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does."
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"Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together."
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"I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part."
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"Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man."
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"I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way."
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"I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me."
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"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."
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"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."
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"Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write."
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"Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in."
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