"Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular."
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"I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants."
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"Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh."
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"The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country."
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"Production is something Ive never come to terms with."
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"If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties."
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"After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists."
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"I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers."
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"Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box."
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"Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis."
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"When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all."
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"When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles."
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"I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either."
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"If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up."
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"I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me."
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"Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception."
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"Let there be more darkness"
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"If you do things out of time you're weird."
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"People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought."
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"I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos."
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