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"People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."
"My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs."
"Most people remember me for a couple of tunes."
"I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course."
"I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good."
"I play in a lot of empty rooms."
"I just want to be a better guitar player, really."
"You don't want to get worse at something."
"I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth."
"I tend to write pretty much by myself. I always did that anyway. I used to write with Ron Strykert 'cause he was the only guitarist and we played well together. We lived in the same place. I would play a certain style and he would kind of dance around what I did, in a sense. I learned from him and also vice-versa. With this band, I think I bounce ideas off everybody. Perhaps on the next album they'll be more collaborative stuff, but for the last 2-3 years, I've been pretty well writing by myself."
"It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way."
"I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic."
"I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold."
"I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do."