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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
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"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."
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"It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind... we're in it together."
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"We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum."
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"The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2."
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"Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already."
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"When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going."
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"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
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"To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel."
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"Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty."
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"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."
Artist
"I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you."
Experience
"I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio."
Work
"Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine."
Military
"Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it."
Attitude
"These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip."
Funny
"When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical."
Punk
"As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle."
Body
"You've got to really know your song, inside and out."
Music
"I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records."
People
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