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"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."
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"When you are "off somewhere else" people notice. Have you found yourself in conversations in which you're so concerned about what you are going to say next, that you don't even hear what the other person is saying? Guilty as charged, right?"

"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."

"While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare."

"I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting."

"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."

"I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95."

"If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it."
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"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."


"These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over."


"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."


"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."


"Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat."


"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it."


"It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down."
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