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“No, I did not provide the backing vocals for The Kinks's 'Waterloo Sunset' - as much as I like the record.”

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There are all these safety nets in pop music.

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Occasionally and all-too-infrequently a song comes along that jolts you and you prick up your ears.

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The unfortunate thing with COVID is that Ron's been working separately from me, but it hasn't stopped the flow of things.

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I sing and Ron doesn't want to be the singer of the band, he's the keyboard player and predominant writer of the band. There's…

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We loved the Beach Boys, bands like that, but our originality came out of our lack of ability as copiers. They did mostly complicated,…

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A lot of people build up a backlog of songs and you can kind of go, 'Let's explore that song we did six years…

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I like when somebody is able to create their own universe, have a consistency to it and not break from character - that's something…

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There are still some people - it's hard to believe - that aren't aware yet of Sparks. So we still kind of go at what we're doing with the same spirit we had when we were first starting out: that we've got a point to prove; that we've got to do stuff that's not middle of the road pop music;…

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There was nothing radically different about what we were doing musically or image-wise, and yet in L.A. there'd been total indifference, so to come…

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Having an image was really important to us and that was kind of contrary to the bands in L.A. that we had grown up…

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As long as it elicits some kind of thought on the listener's part, that's good. If no one's paying attention to the lyrics it's…

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Bands can get lazy after 20 albums. But that's not us.

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