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"I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting."
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"I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it."

"I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right."

"Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden."

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
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"Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it."


"The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage."


"My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer."


"I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place."


"As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist."


"I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it."


"Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually."


"My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other."


"My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio."
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