I don't want to put myself as some paragon, but I still want to say it. Life is not just falling off a log. It's about hard work. And the rewards are infinite.
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I was keen to record 'Zenyatta Mondatta' because I'd written a lot of songs for it, but when it came to going back on the road I had to be virtually dragged out of the house.
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I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
Anyone who buys a ticket and if they don't hear 'Roxanne' or 'Every Breath You Take', I think they feel cheated. I always do those songs but we do them differently - the possibilities are limitless.
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I quite enjoy balancing the artistic side of my work with the commercial side. I like selling a lot of records. But I've been lucky in that I've never had to tailor my music to satisfy that market demand.
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It was fun to sell a lot of records and be the biggest group in the world for a certain period - filling football stadiums and all that. But my intention all along was to get better at making music. That's still the case.
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I'm not really thinking about success in any definable way. For me, it's to keep playing and performing. I don't have to be the biggest rock star in the world. It's all a big game. The secret is in knowing you don't have to win.
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My job as a musician is very different from that of a prose writer - which I don't ever see myself being - because my job is to miniaturize. I take a big subject like love and make it small, where a writer takes a small subject and must make it bigger.
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Singles choose themselves. You can tell when you are playing the record to the company from the oohs and aahs whether a track works or not. I used to know what a single would do 10 years ago but now I don't have any idea and tend to leave it to the record company.
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I like to think I'm less about rock and roll and more about songs. I think songwriting is a tradition that's older than rock and roll. I could live without rock and roll. I haven't got this sort of religious reverie for rock and roll. I think it's incredibly reactionary and boring.
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