Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.


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I don't hold grudges.
IAN MCEWAN
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel r...
IAN MCEWAN
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literatu...
IAN MCEWAN
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it&...
IAN MCEWAN
I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them....
IAN MCEWAN
Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and the...
IAN MCEWAN
It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're...
IAN MCEWAN
Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
IAN MCEWAN
Not being boring is quite a challenge.
IAN MCEWAN
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
IAN MCEWAN
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent...
IAN MCEWAN
I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
IAN MCEWAN
What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and...
IAN MCEWAN
I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
IAN MCEWAN
You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
IAN MCEWAN
I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don&#...
IAN MCEWAN
One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any fra...
IAN MCEWAN
True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
IAN MCEWAN
But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the...
IAN MCDIARMID
For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chan...
IAN MCDIARMID
I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite g...
IAN MCDIARMID
I'm the blackest villain of all time.
IAN MCDIARMID
The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen pl...
IAN MCDIARMID
If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, an...
IAN MCDIARMID
That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
IAN MCDIARMID
There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne...
IAN MCDIARMID
To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back ...
IAN MCDIARMID
When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to ...
IAN MCDIARMID
And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me...
IAN MCDIARMID
Consistency is very important when you're making films.
IAN MCDIARMID
It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it...
IAN MCDIARMID
What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That ...
IAN JACKSON
I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do i...
IAN JACKSON