The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

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Imagining playing the guitar is a slightly looser thing than playing it. You can hear more things sometimes. The fingers of your imagination aren't quite as hidebound as your real fingers.

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I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

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I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

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Sound like they're being sung to just one person.

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We were attempting to restore the culture of Britain for the British, ... But the English, in particular, aren't comfortable with their own culture. To be taken seriously, it has to come from somewhere else. So we remained a cult band.

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Somehow that came out sounding better than we would have thought.

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Music is a great healer, a great diffuser of things like racism. It cuts through boundaries, and it's a very positive force in the world.

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This is a global problem. Eight million tons of litter enter the oceans every day -- most is plastic.

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