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"It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something."
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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"Fun is never gone because life is fun."
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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
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"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."
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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."
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"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."
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"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."
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"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
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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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"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
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"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."
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"All audiences should be slightly off balance."
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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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"It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something."
Fun
"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
Achievement
"People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences."
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"I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands."
Music
"I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing."
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