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I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
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Music
Hate
I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
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Being
Famous
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
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Children
Example
Old
Want
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
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People
Children
Freedom
Media
I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.
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Work
Impression
Fun
Wrong
I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
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Work
Exploration
Yoga
I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.
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Love
I realize that nothing's as it seems.
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Nothing
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
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Life
Work
Body
Songs
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
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Music
Language
Needs
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
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Work
Man
I think I'm a focus for international attention.
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Attention
Focus
I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
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Home
England
Weather
Years
I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
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Life
Service
Spiritual
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
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Time
Friends
Mortality
Singing