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Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great...

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Women hear rhythm differently than men.

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival...

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.

Life for me is about movement.

I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

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