"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."

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"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."

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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture."

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"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."

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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."

"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."

"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

"You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture."

"The best songs I write in 20 minutes."

"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."

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"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."

"It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down."

"As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music."

"In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing."

"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it."

"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."