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"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."
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"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."

"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."

"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."

"There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it."

"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."
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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."

"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."

"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."

"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."

"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan."

"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."

"However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums."

"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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