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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
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"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."
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"The industry is a menace to artists."
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"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own."
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"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."
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"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."
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"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."
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"I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason."
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"To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key."
Key
"Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd."
Sound
"Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song."
Work
"The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened."
Time
"The story behind every song is individual to itself."
Music
"We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems."
Success
"The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2."
Artist
"I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane."
Idea
"When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart."
Time
"Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told."
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