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"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."

"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."

"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."

"I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes."

"Are deepest desires are: someone to understand us, someone to appreciate us, someone to inspire us, and someone to enjoy what we are."
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"I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs."


"We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting."


"I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see."


"Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world."


"I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy."


"It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader."


"Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records."
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