The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

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In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

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I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

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When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

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I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

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We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

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In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

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I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

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This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

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I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

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