"I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly."
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"When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music."
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"The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious."
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"I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends."
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"I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough."
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"The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift."
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"More idiots should just shut their mouths."
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"Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here."
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"I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story."
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"I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world."
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"There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very important to engage with this idea, just as human beings, that we are free to do what we wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as one gets to know oneself, one finds that there are things that return again and again that you wanna do."
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"I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three."
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"You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship."
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"I don't mind not being cool."
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"There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going."
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"It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help."
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"I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!"
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"If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?"
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"There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff."
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"As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in."
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