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I'm English and I am British. I don't know if I feel part of a music scene. Musically, I have as many feelings and affinity with Americans or Canadians, or all sorts of people as I do with English people.
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People are encouraged by what I do. You can feel it. I feel it. People are ready to embrace their humanity and to embrace the rest of the human race. People are ready for the idea that we're all brothers and sisters and that we need to cooperate with one another.
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Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.
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I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.
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I like songs that are simple.
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Everybody's got somewhere they call home.
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I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.
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This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.
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These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections to stealing them if that seems like a good idea. I'm sure that I'm still influenced by Mark Knopfler and Eddie Van Halen as well......I can't play like Eddie Van Halen. I wish I could. I sat down to try some of those ideas and can't do it. I don't know if I could ever get any of that stuff together. Sometimes I think I should work at the guitar more.
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I don't live my life on the road. I'm getting on a bit and there's a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It's more of a part-time business these days.
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That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
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I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.
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I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
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The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.
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I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.
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If you are in a band or in any situation with other people there are obviously brilliant aspects to it, but there are also things that you start finding yourself tied to.
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Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.
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Adrian Maben came to us with the idea. And we just thought, "Well, why not?" I don't think any of us thought it would be as well received and last in people's minds for as long as it did. All credit to him. It's his idea [Pink Floyd at Pompeii] and it was great.
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All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
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The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on . . . does that happen today?
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How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
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I am working on current material, a new album, and that is all still my main motivation of going out and working. We haven't gotten rid of all the new stuff in favor of the old.
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When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.
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How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?