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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

When I perform as a solo, I think a lot about what I always wanted to do but have not done yet.

I dress for men.

Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.

Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.

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