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My muse is my wife. It's not ...

My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.

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The big problem with songwrit...

The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.

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I don't write happy songs. Wh...

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

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The idea of songwriting is a ...

The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.

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It's possible to get through ...

It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live.

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I'm not in the business of te...

I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.

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At some point you start seein...

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

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Most of the time, feelings ju...

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

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I would hate to think my song...

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

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An artist's duty is rather to...

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

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If beautiful movies can influ...

If beautiful movies can influence you to go out and hug your children, then we have to be honest and say that other movies can inspire you to do bad things.

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I'm a believer. I don't go to...

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

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The band is a living, breathi...

The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.

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Musicians are at the bottom o...

Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.

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I have an armchair interest i...

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

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L.A. is full of screenwriters...

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

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Guns are part of the American...

Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

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People often can't separate, ...

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

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When I perform onstage, I'm a...

When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.

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In getting older, I find myse...

In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....