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Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.
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I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.
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There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.
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I think computers have changed things tremendously. At one time, you tended to take the rough with the smooth. But now, because you can go back and stop and start, and have a limitless amount of tracks if anything looks remotely good, we keep it. You've got to go through the agony of sounding very human at first, and then you work on it with the aid of technology. Computers have revolutionized things in many ways allowing me to work to a standard I could have only joked about fourty years ago.
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This has been going on for about 12 years. It's not a one-off thing. There was vermin there and people have seen rats.
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Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.
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I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.
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I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
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I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
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One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream.
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I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.
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As we become so visible in the digital world and leave an endless trail of data behind us, exactly who has our data and what they do with it becomes increasingly important.
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If we grab technology and adapt it and make it work for us, it will work in one way, whereas if we just leave it, it will stay in the hands of big corporations and governments, who have other agendas.
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I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The only explanation I have is all that stuff is coming at you while you're relaxed, so somehow it kicks you into hyperspace in terms of brain function.
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I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.
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He's like a rock star to us. Forget American Idol. We had the real deal.
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If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.
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I'm not as convinced as a lot of people are that man-made climate change is the threat they think it is.
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The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.
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When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.
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I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
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If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.
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Holding still for a moment, what a moment this is, Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss
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There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.