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"When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it."
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"Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants."

"Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing."

"I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself."

"VH1 does its little '80s retro thing once in a while, all of us in our bad hairdos and unfortunate clothes."
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"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."

"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."

"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity."

"I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me."

"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."
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