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"So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out."
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"What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't."
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"It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records."
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"I want to be on a show that's as good as the one we're doing and that we get to make for many years."
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"I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child."

"At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right."

"We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired."

"What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business."

"It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that."

"There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe."

"Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that."
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