"Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies."
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"You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships."
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"Slaves do what others want. Servants do what others need."
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"It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders."
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"If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view."
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"I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute."
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"Authority is always built on service and sacrifice."
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"A rut... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out."
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"If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice."
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"It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff."
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"I get influenced by stuff that isn't even music."
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"Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American."
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"If I sang the way I talk it would sound like "Tommy Steele sings Muddy Waters!""
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"I'm conscious enough that how I'm singing is not my own accent."
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"My absolute favorite song I've ever written is "This Is Where We Came In." It's a nudge at younger listeners, cause at one time you could go into a cinema halfway through a film and then stay through and pick up where you left off."
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"For me, hearing the term 'apply yourself' was like a crucifix to Bella Lugosi's Dracula. 'Ahhh, it burns!'"
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"Leadership is character in action."
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