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"I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap."
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"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."


"This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome."


"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."


"What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done."


"It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends."


"Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't."


"I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really."


"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."


"I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal."


"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."
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