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You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

I'm just not going to tour. One point I want to get across to everybody is that I'm still going to make records and I may still do some events. It's not the last time I'm onstage. It's been a part of my life for too long to quit everything. I have done it since the '80s, and I think it's time now to maybe see if I can live without that part.

You have to focus hard on recording songs that you believe in.

If I did all the stuff I've been accused of - or credited with - there's no way I could make all this music. I'd be drinking myself into the grave.

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.