"[I'll be the first one of the Smith to die.] I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths."
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"I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention!"
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"If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It's that simple"
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"Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it. ... But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm...You're nodding, you know what I mean."
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"Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!""
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"Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt..."
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"Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?"
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"Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch."
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"Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes"
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"But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill. I want to live and I want to love. I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of."
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"I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds."
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"Well, I think the way you feel as a teenager stays with you, forever. I really believe that. And we try to change and we hope that we change, but we don't really in big ways, in serious ways. I think the personality is formed at that time, for the good and for the bad. ... We all want to grow up and move on and appear to be different to people. And we want people to see us in a different way. But, I don't know, I think the personality is very, very strongly cemented, and we just bear whatever shortcomings we have and learn to live with it."
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"And if I seem a little strange Well, that's because I am"
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"I don't dream about anyone - except myself"
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"For the first time in my life the eternal 'I' becomes 'we', as, finally, I can get on with someone."
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"I don't even know if I exist offstage."
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"I don't iron anything. Never have and never will."
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"I like to think that there is a clear majority of people who's be supportive of the idea, It does save the existing industry. It does provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the Commonwealth."
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"Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them."
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"Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need"
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