"I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music."

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"Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator."

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"The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings."

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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

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"Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music."

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"I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted."

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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

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"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

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"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

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"You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity."

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"I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies."

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"Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me."

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"I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused."

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"Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music."

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"I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music."

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"Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things."

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"Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back."

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"And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music."

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"Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing."

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