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"The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends."
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"Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats."

"Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference."

"The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it."

"Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin."

"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."

"The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness."

"I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did."
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"Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists."

"I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy."

"There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material."

"Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things."

"It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities."

"I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold."

"I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training."

"It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo."
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