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The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

If you look at anyone at the top of their profession, there has to be something a little bit different. Some of the top musicians are quirky aren't they, to say the least. You have to be driven, cold, hard and mentally tough as iron. My missus thinks I'm a bit weird.