"When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move."

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"When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move."

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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

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"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."

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"Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me."

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"All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes."

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"I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there."

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"But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me."

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"I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day."

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"The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song."

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"I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari."

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"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."

"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."

"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."

"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."

"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."

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"Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me."

"All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes."

"I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there."

"But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me."

"I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day."

"But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing."

"I didn't really want to give up music."

"But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful."

"The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song."

"I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari."