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Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time.

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I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

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If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

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The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

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Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.

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I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

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Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

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Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.

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Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

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I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Musician

Born: September 19th, 1963

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