"It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was."
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"I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?"
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"I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe."
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"I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer."
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"I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think: "Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me". It's a very common thing."
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"I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it."
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"Every love song I write is for Linda."
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"If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles."
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"John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood."
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"That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish."
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"I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all."
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"Fight for the right to live in freedom!"
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"My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous."
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"One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird."
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"My so-called career is a haphazard thing."
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"There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off."
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"Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical."
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"Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human."
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"Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head."
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"For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder."
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