"My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever."

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"My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever."

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"I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father."

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"She was a genius, my mother."

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"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers."

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"If I were like your mother, I would be a woman."

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"I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done."

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"Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before."

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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."

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"I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did."

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"Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour."

Language

"It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid."

Being

"Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright."

Audience

"The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years."

Time

"I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me."

Thought

"Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better."

Now

"It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things."

Faces

"We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music."

Music

"I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar."

Father

"You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that."

Time