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I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record.
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It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.
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Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.
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But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment.
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Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog.
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I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.
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And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.
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The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.
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I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos.
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I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head.
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So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.
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I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.
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I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.
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I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
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