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"I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that."
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"The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."

"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."

"If I call him back here," Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?"

"For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts."

"I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that."

"I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really."

"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes."

"There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful."
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"But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear."

"I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that."

"I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit."

"The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away."

"A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following."
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