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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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