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And I like music, too, I like playing music.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It’s just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

I know for works for me – those wonderful sad love songs.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.

I mean, when it’s time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.