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I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.
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Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
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I hate cliche.
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My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.
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There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.
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There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said `When I think of the group, I always think of power and force. There's a definite presence there.' That was it. He wanted to call it `Obelisk'. To me, it was more important what was behind the obelisk. The cover is very tongue-in-cheek, to be quite honest. Sort of a joke on 2001. I think it's quite amusing.
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If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.
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A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.
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If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.
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You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a speciļ¬c moment is what drives it.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.
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My dad played fiddle as well.
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I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.
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There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.
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There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.
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I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.
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I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.
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It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
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I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
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All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.
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I'm still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It's not very easy to find them these days.