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Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

Wir leben in verrückten Zeiten. Früher habe ich gehustet, um einen Furz zu übertönen, jetzt furze ich, um mein Husten zu übertönen.

Crazy times we're living in. I used to cough to hide a fart, now I'm farting to hide a cough.

Meine Katze ist schon völlig genervt von mir, weil ich jetzt den ganzen Tag in ihrer Wohnung herum hänge.

My cat is really annoyed by me, now that I hang around in her apartment all day.

'Sind sie als Senior bereit, ihr Leben für das Amerika, das wir alle lieben, für ihre Kinder und Enkel, auf's Spiel zu setzen?'
Wenn das der Deal ist, bin ich dabei.

'As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?'
If that is the exchange, I'm all in.

Wenn dat Virus erstmal da is, fracht man sich natürlich: Wuhan hat et jelejen?

Die krasseste Phase des Coronavirus ist die, wenn nichts passiert ist und die Deutschen wochenlang ihre 100 Kilo Nudeln essen müssen.

Der Bundestag hat soeben beschlossen: Alle Haushalte mit mehr als 10 Rollen Klopapier gelten ab sofort als öffentliche Toiletten.

The government just decided: Every houshold hoarding more than 10 rolls of toilet paper is from now on regarded as a public toilet.

Viele wussten ja gar nicht, dass sich die Dinosaurier bis kurz vor ihrem Ende zu Asteroiden-Parties getroffen haben.

Many people didn't know, that just before the end, dinosaurs met each other at asteroid parties.

Warum gibt es in Zeiten von Corona so wenig Klopapier?
Wenn einer niest, machen sich alle um ihn herum in die Hose.

Why is there a shortage of toilet paper in times of Corona?
If someone sneezes, everyone around him shits their pants.

Der Coronavirus wird ab sofort alles verändern. Niemand kann dir sagen, wann es aufhört. Niemand kann dir sagen, wann du wieder zur Arbeit gehen wirst.

Coronavirus will change almost everything going forward. Nobody can tell you when this is going to end. Nobody can tell you when you'll go back to work.

Ob psychologisch, oder emotional. Das hier ist genauso eine soziale Krise, wie es eine Gesundheitskrise ist.

Call it psychological, call it feelings. call it emotions. But this is as much a social crisis as a health crisis.

Ich wende mich gegen jede dieser zynischen Erwägungen, dass man den Tod von Menschen in Kauf nehmen muss, damit die Wirtschaft läuft.

Der jetzige Zustand darf keinen Tag länger dauern, als es medizinisch geboten ist.

In meinem Leben vergeht kein Tag, ohne dass jemand die Worte 'Monty Python' zu mir sagt. Gar nicht schlecht.

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.

Wir haben erkannt, dass je weniger wir arbeiten, desto mehr Geld verdienen wir.

We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.

I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.

I feel basically good about my career because it's remained constant. What I do has never been especially in vogue or gotten high on the charts. At the same time, I haven't had to stop performing any of my music because it aged in style.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

Because of my song 'Sam Stone,' a lot of people thought I was interested in writing protest songs. Writing protest songs always struck me as patting yourself on the back.

The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else.

You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.

Ich finde immer etwas, um mich zu beschäftigen.

I always find something to keep me busy.

You look just like you!

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?

It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.

Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.

The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.

What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

Wir müssen uns fragen, wer die Feinde sind. Die Feinde sind die Terroristen.

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia.

Berlin, die größte kulturelle Extravaganz, die man sich vorstellen kann.

Berlin - the greatest cultural extravaganza that one could imagine.

Berlin ist arm, aber sexy.