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Evan Dando

"When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later."

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"When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later."

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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

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"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."

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"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass."

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"I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band."
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"See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue."
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"CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything."
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"I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them."
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"I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything."
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"I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work."
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"It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore."
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"Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on."
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"I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out."
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"The best songs I write in 20 minutes."
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