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"I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished."
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"When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up."
"Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking."
"Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else."
"I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch."
"Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing."
"Everybody's just been spilling their guts all over records and talking about how hard it is to be an entertainer and how much we get hated on and what we have to go through. But I ain't really got it that bad. I'm just happy to be here."
"So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do."
"You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!"
"I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!"
"In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet."
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"My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it."
"I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!"
"After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration."
"With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things."
"People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need."
"Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs."
"You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person."
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