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I Think It's Something To Do With The Structural Quality Of The Songs. We Weren't Actually Trying To Make Stuff That Was Cool, Or Of The Moment, Although A Lot Of It Was. We Were Trying To Make Stuff That Was Good Enough To Stick Around And Lo And Behold, It Has.

You See, My Mother Was A District Nurse Until She Died When I Was 14, And We Used To Move From Time To Time Because Of Her Work.

When I Sit Down To Write A Song, It's A Kind Of Improvisation, But I Formalize It A Bit To Get It Into The Studio, And When I Step Up To A Microphone, I Have A Vague Idea Of What I'm About To Do.

I Doubt Very Much If The Beatles Would Have Happened If It Was Not For Elvis.

I Just Start Singing Some Words With A Tune. I Don't Ever Write A Song Thinking, Now I'll Write A Song About... .