"I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer."

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"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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"This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome."

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"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."

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"Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less."

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