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"I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible."
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"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"

"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."

"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."

"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."
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"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."

"I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing."

"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
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