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"The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level."
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"Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive."
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"You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself."
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"I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!"
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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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"When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight."
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"Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist."
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"I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!"
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"I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math."
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"As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there."
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"I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad."
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"We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it."
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"By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero."
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"I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me."
Politics
"It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me."
Nature
"But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now."
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"The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level."
Artist
"I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas."
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"An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone."
America
"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."
Being
"Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today."
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