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I Think It's Part Of Being English, Particularly If You Are Middle-class - You're Always Looking To Be Reminded That You Are No Good And You Are Always Actually Embarrassed About Being Successful.

There's This Idea That Artists Are Free And That Means That We Can Do Whatever We Want To Do. And It's Very Important To Engage With This Idea, Just As Human Beings, That We Are Free To Do What We Wanna Do. So The Real Question Becomes, Then, What Do We Wanna Do? And As One Gets To Know Oneself, One Finds That There Are Things That Return Again And Again That You Wanna Do.

The Goal Is To Try And Make The Perfect Song. Which Of Course Will Never Happen.

All The Children Of America, Up To Age Seven Or Eight Or Nine Or Ten - They're Really Great Artists. So Here We've Got This Amazing Work That Very Few People Pay Any Attention To, And It's Not Valued By The Culture.

Everyone From The Pope To Some Hobo Thinks, "i'm A Human Being. What Am I Doing Here?" You Can't Get Carried Away With Fame And Fortune And All That. It's All Nonsense. The Whole Pop-star Side Of It Is All Fun And Good, But You Don't Get Anywhere Without Putting In The Hours. I Get So Fulfilled When We Play A Song Live That We Spent Hours Working On. It's All Cool. Fame Is Something To Have Fun With, But You Shouldn't Take It Too Seriously Because It Is Bollocks.