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Quotes by Musician

"Production is something I've never come to terms with."

"Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain."

"It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?"

"I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way."

"Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me."

"Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs."

"Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different."

"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way."

"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction."

"I still write the same way and have the same perspective."

"I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow."

"That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls."

"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet."

"When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin."

"I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit."

"I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves."

"I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it's just a different flavour, it's a different sound, but I think both have their place."

"The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field."

"My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing."

"I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could."

"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."

"In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter."

"All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to."

"The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything."

"The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas."

"When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!"

"I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should."
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"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
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