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"Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing."
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"If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point."

"No difficulty can come to you (your way). If the mind wavers, difficulty will embrace you! That is all, the law of the universe is just this."

"It's not so easy... it's not possible."

"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."

"I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it."

"My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly."

"It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already."

"The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task."
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"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."

"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."

"Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me."

"I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way."

"These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas."

"And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it."

"Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written."
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