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Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn’t fit with expectation – I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

I’m just going to write because I cannot help it.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I do not seek. I find.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

We didn’t rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we’ve never really felt while making records.