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"Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in."
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"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."
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"As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing."
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"I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing."
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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
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"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success."
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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."
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"So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that."
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"It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs."
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"I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air."
Travel

"I spend a lot of time writing in New York."
Time

"When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words."
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"I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite."
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"Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end."
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"I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen."
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"I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home."
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