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"My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter."
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"I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions."
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"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing."
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"My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it."
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"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve."
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"On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron."
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"My theory about Jack is that he's not a very good parent."
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"Theories pass. The frog remains."
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"The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions."
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"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."
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"I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory."
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"We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it."
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"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."
Class
"By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero."
Time
"I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me."
Politics
"It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me."
Nature
"But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now."
Love
"The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level."
Artist
"That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really."
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"I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas."
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"My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter."
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