Pulp Quotes
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The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.
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A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.
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Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.
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Often people poopoo melody as if it's a cheap trick to make people like things, but in my experience it's the hardest part of the tune, to find something that doesn't immediately remind you of something that's happened before.
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There are some quite funny things about getting famous and stuff, but I think there comes a point where you have to think to yourself, "Well, am I doing this because I want to go to a party and meet Britney Spears? Or am I doing it because I want to create something that excites me?"
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I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.
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You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship.
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It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.
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I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.
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The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
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I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.
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Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.
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Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.
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When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made.
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That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool.
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In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded, it always performs well.
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I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.
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France is a republic, and the rules in theory have been made by everyone rather than imposed by a dictatorship or king or whatever. So it's like, we've got to stick to these rules because we made them.
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It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference.
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The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.
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99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.
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I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.
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Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time.
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If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.