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My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni…

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I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities…
I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm;…
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all…
For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his…
I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for…
I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would…
You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the…
I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had,…
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was…

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