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The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.

Mick Jagger

In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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Behavior Culture Pretend Yourself
The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
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Achievement Mad Performance Way Yourself
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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Happiness Job Mom Myself Sad Work
People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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Brain People Rule
It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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Let Go Return Yourself
You never really know what’s going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they’re going to behave.
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Attitude Audience Behavior Unknown Yourself
I’m not the businessman. I don’t deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I’ve run out of money, I have to go and make some more.
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Business Deal Man Money Myself Run
You can’t always get what you want.
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Achievement One Liner Reality Truth Yourself
Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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Attitude Behavior Mindset Myself Surprise
As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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Care Face Myself Page
Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
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Exploration Root Sky Travel Yourself
Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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Himself Performance Person Private Stage
You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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Brilliant Build Practice Sing Yourself
All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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Dance Replacement Sex
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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Habit Myself Tea
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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Care Forget Myself Past Song Trap
Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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Excellence Music Talent Work Yourself
I don’t only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn’t want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.
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Choice Limitation Music Myself Play Preference
Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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Money Survive Work
In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They’ve got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.
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Drugs Legal Man Myself Phone See Society
I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you’ve experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.
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Better Experience Imagination Run See Writing Yourself
I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
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Country Hard Love Music Myself Serious
If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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Attention Sing Team Yousrelf
I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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Enjoyment Myself People Thinking Young
People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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Forget People Thinking Yourself
I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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Choice Comfortable Home Live Myself Preference
Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can’t be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that’s always good.
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Goodness Moments Music Raise Rare Stand Yourself

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