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"I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best."

"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out."

"I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words."

"All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me."

"You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles because experimental physicists have discovered a lot of particles."

"Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show."
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"My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing."

"I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy."

"Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music."

"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."

"In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter."

"I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years."

"The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important."

"I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that."
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