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“If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.”

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My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' I've got a life…

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Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

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I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.

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Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've…

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Writing songs is a trade like anything else.

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Artists are not going to put somebody new in the president's chair. It's all worth the effort; it all needs to be done. But…

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I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and there were…

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There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And I guess…

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I don't want to sing songs and write songs that need to have images behind them that are of a specific time. The times…

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I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to…

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But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

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I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and they're circling the drain, and there's no…

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