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    And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke?

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    But I can't find anybody. That's the problem. I don't know where they are. I mean, I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going to play properly, I should need some really good people.

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    Fairy-tales are nice.

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    Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

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    Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

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    I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

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    I don't feel active, and that my public conscience is fully satisfied.

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    I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

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    I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

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    In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

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    I suppose I could've done a job. I haven't been doing any work. I'm not really used to doing quick jobs and then stopping, but I'm sure it would be possible.

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    I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

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    I think of me being a painter eventually.

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    I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.

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    It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

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    I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it...

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    I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

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    I wasn't always this introverted.

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    I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was Emily. (on how he wrote "See Emily Play") "Chapter 24"-that was from the "I Ching", there was someone around who was very into that, most of the words came straight off that. "Lucifer Sam" was another one-it didn't mean much to me at the time, but then three or four months later it came to mean a lot.

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    Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

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    Singles are always simple.

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    That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

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    The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

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    The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

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    There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.

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    Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter. I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done. But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger.

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    Well, I've got a color telly, and a fridge. I've got some pork chops in the fridge, but the chops keep going off, so I have to keep buying more.

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    You can play guitar in your canteen, you know, your hair might be longer, but there's a lot more to playing than travelling around universities and things.

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    We feel that in the future, groups are going to have to offer much more than just a pop show. They'll have to offer a well-presented theatre show.