Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
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I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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I’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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I like hard, aggressive music.
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It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.
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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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