- Nov 07, 2020
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
- Blame
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.
- Nov 07, 2020
Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
- Lane
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
- Consistency
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like Public Enemy a great deal.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.
- Geography
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020