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"It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word."
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"Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!"

"Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight."

"I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones."

"Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically."

"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."

"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
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"Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right."

"They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all."

"But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own."

"Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish."
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