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"Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't."
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"I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology."
"Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience."
"Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world."
"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper."
"I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap."
"The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture."
"I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song."
"People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know."
"I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer."
"I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question."
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