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"Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it."
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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"

"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."

"When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with."

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"All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together."

"So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing."

"So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time."

"It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it."

"In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same."

"So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours."

"When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time."
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