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It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.

Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.

I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

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