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I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

About Action Afford Against
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I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

Because Better Did Ground
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I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.
Album Angeles Before Full
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And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

Along Get Going Guarantee
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Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.

Been David Eight Furnish
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Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

Am Ask Because Enough
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Who really needs a new album from me?

Album Me Needs New
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Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

Bands Craft Did Hard
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I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.

Attitudes Food History I Love
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If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

Am Better Craig David
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I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

Leave Like Man Money
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I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

Am I Am I Can Making
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I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

Celebrity Loathe Stand Can't
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I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

Bunny Got Happy Inside
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I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

Charts Compete I Can Just
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Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

Forgiving Jesus Loving Us
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People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

Appalling Dying Going HIV
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There's a lot of hate in the world.

Hate Lot Of World
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As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.

About Accept Days Elton
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I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

Amazing Enjoyment Gives Had
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There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.

Because Go Going Got
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I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

Got Income Live Lot
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But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

Enough Good Good Relationship Just
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The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.

About Anywhere Backwards Fly
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The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

Child Happen Many Seen
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I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
Amused Disgusted Now Try
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There's no such thing as an original sin.

Original Original Sin Sin Thing
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And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Any Beyond Feel Form
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And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

Artists Bit Cases Country
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But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.

Achieve Could Delivery Man
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I find humming is very useful.

Find Humming Useful Very
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I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

Been Different Different Types Listen
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Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

Because Everybody Harmony Just
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Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.

Again Always Because Could
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Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

About Admired Beatles Choices
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Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

Different Different Things Holding Lot
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
Difficulty I Write Notes Singing
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There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

Critics Lie Many Strengths
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These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

Curiosity Ideas Music New
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Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.

Album Ever Experience Happened
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Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

Different Everybody Everything Experiences
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Women hear rhythm differently than men.
Differently Hear Men Rhythm
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You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Going Just Need Obscurity
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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

Life My Ultimate Vocation
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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

Believe Connected Human I Believe
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People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

Course Me People Quotes
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I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

Certainly Destroyed Destroying Ever
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My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

Call Calls Child Convention
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I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.
Bigger Just Musician Scale
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Life for me is about movement.

About Life Me Movement
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