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• ‟ The nature of music fandom and music fans is that, very often, they fall in love with a band or a particular artist, and they really would like... I'm talking generally; that's not everyone. But a vast majority of the fan base would prefer the band to keep making the same record and the same style of music over and over again.

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• ‟ My autobiography would be 'Loves music, loves art, works hard, writes music, tours the world, makes records.'

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• ‟ It's too easy now to find music, and it's therefore too easy to dismiss music, particularly music that doesn't hit you the first time you hear it.

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• ‟ I grew up listening to bands like the Cure, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance - these are the bands that I actually grew up with, and I always had these things in my taste, too. And I always loved industrial music as well: I listened to Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Cabaret Voltaire. And shoegaze bands like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine.

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• ‟ There was a time when pop music and rock music were really reaching for the stars and were not ashamed to be experimental. You think of a song like 'Shout' by Tears for Fears. That's a massive global No. 1 hit, and yet the subject matter is very dark.

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• ‟ I wanted people to say that our music sounds like Porcupine Tree, not that it sounds like King Crimson.

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• ‟ You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.

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• ‟ I've always wanted to make some kind of music that was universally appreciated.

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• ‟ I loved disco music, and I still count Donna Summer as one of my favorites of all time.

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• ‟ When I was a very young kid, the first music that really turned me on was a new wave of British heavy metal - big, dumb rock music. There was a band called Diamond Head - they were basically the band that inspired Metallica. But I also liked bands like Saxon and Iron Maiden.

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• ‟ It's a cliche that music rises above it all, and it's a cliche for a reason - it's very often true.

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• ‟ The one thing I do believe is, if you make the songs about the human aspects of things, you've got a much better chance of having the music transcend the times. If you make them very political and very topical, it's going to date very quickly.

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• ‟ Human beings find change very difficult. They find change is something that can be quite an awkward thing to adjust to. It applies to music. It applies to life. It applies to everything.

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