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"I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair."

"When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter."

"When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld."

"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."

"England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'."

"The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it."

"In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me."
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"I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off."

"I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly."

"I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?"

"I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval."
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