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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."

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
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"If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever."

"From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it."

"When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together."

"You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything."

"I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!"

"It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous."

"When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again."

"To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well."

"We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great."
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