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"Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music."
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"Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you."
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