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Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them...
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You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
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The more I see the less I know for sure.
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I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?
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Beatles, women and children first!
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The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.
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Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.
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I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.
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Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
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I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.
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I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.
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We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
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All I want is the truth, just give me some truth...
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I don't mind looking to the camera - it's people that throw me.
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Your inside is out and your outside is in.
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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
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Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
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I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.
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Love is the Answer. What was the Question?
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The lyrics stand today 1980. They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.
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Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.
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Every night there's a moment that I just wanna go back to bed. I just get nervous. Then I run on stage and as soon as I grab the mic then I'm fine.
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I feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed!
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As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.