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"I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity."
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"I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star."

"I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity."

"As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have."

"I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years."

"It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along."

"I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles."

"You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important."

"I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover."
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"As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job."


"Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit."


"Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes."


"I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart."


"We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music."
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