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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."

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."

"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

"Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time."
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"I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you."


"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up."


"The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music."


"Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'."


"Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age."


"I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is."


"When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me."
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