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As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.
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If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.
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I don't like John Terry and I never have. He's got funny eyes and he's a cry baby. He's also a Cockney.
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Every song that I play I wrote by myself.
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I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.
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Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.
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If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah...fair enough...gotta go home now.'
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Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she's amazing.
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None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none of us done anything. We were the last great band to come out of nowhere, on an indie label. We've sold 50 million records. That's still the benchmark. Until someone does what we've done, I'll always consider myself the last big songwriter.
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I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.
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I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'
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I love the NFL. I don't have a team per se, but I'm into it.
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I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.
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I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.
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Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.
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I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.
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People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.
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I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.
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I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.
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I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.
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In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.
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The scumbags are taking over the streets. I don't know what David Cameron and Gordon Brown are going to do about it. It all goes back to the Thatcher (Margaret Thatcher) years. It sounds like a cliché but that's when the rot set in.
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Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don't need to say anything else.
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I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.