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    A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

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    All the girls walk by dressed up for each other, and the boys do the boogie woogie on the corner of the street.

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    A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

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    Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.

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    And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.

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    And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic

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    At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

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    Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.

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    Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.

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    Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

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    Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.

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    Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

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    Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.

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    Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In that case I'll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best.

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    Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense.

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    Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

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    Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

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    Everybody's got their own particular vision which is a personal thing.

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    For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts, it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cos I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

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    From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road

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    Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.

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    Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.

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    Hearing the blues changed my life.

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    I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

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    I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

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    I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.

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    I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

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    I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

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    I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

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    I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.

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    I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.

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    I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.

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    I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

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    I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

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    I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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    I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.

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    I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

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    If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

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    If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?

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    I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright.

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    If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.

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    If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

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    If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.

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    If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

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    If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen.

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    If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

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    I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

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    I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression.

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    I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.

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    I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.