"I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible."

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"I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible."

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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

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"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

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"Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously."

Language

"I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!"

Artist

"The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life."

Life

"When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together."

People

"We play a long show, and you can't beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is."

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"Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it."

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"When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again."

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"You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation."

Stability

"We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing."

Want

"You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything."

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