"The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport"
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"A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is what you fall in love with afterwards."
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"The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side."
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"I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye."
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"I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way."
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"I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite."
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"I don't think anyone really says anything new."
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"There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less."
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"What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous."
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"I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come."
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"I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs."
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"I'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston Symphony, and I'm in that world a lot now. I'm surprised at how difficult it is for people who are classically trained to read music or to memorize music, how difficult it is for them to improvise, to just go off and play. It's sort of, it's like terra incognita. They just, (makes noise) they don't get it."
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"It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is."
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"It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it."
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"The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground."
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"I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music."
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"I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to."
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"Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love."
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"Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar."
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"I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical."
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