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You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.
Bruce McCulloch
Funny
Me
You
Word
Weird
Know
Hear
Times
Anymore
Meaning
Many
I got through college realizing business was repugnant.
Bruce McCulloch
Business
College
Through
Got
Repugnant
Realizing
There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
Bryan Adams
Success
Good
Great
You
Great Friends
Having
Rely
Instruction
Deal
How
Friends
Just
Manual
Team
Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.
Bryan Adams
Music
Joy
Job
Think
Pleasure
Release
Weird
Because
Just
Which
Therapy
I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.
Bryan Adams
Music
Me
Pride
Penny
Beginning
Secondly
Took
Way
Right Way
Would
Borrowed
About
Never
Allowed
Merits
Know
Because
How
Doing
Anybody
In The Beginning
Really
Grant
Right
I like the idea of helping people help people.
Bryan Adams
People
Idea
Like
Help
Help People
Helping
Helping People
I'm a complete and utter busker.
Bryan Adams
Complete
Utter
Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
Bryan Adams
Time
You
People
Better
Social Media
Clever
Aim
Honing
Lyric
Spent
Giant
Distraction
Both
Exceptional
Writer
Songwriter
However
Ultimate
Than
Craft
Which
Social
Fantastic
Then
Your
Who
Tweet
Media
Things
I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
Bryan Adams
Music
Myself
Try
Else
Only
Write
Anyone
Anyone Else
Appeal
I pack every minute I can with something to do.
Bryan Adams
Every
Minute
Something
Pack
I need to be able to rock out.
Bryan Adams
Out
Able
Rock
Need
I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
Bryan Adams
Time
Myself
Police
Rude
Seen
Trouble
Out
Bottom
Got
Scrape
Pit
Awakening
To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.
Bryan Adams
Think
More
Celebrity
Anything
I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.
Bryan Adams
Sad
Musicians
Matter
Young
Pay
Nowadays
Properly
Never
Feel
Genre
Because
Rent
Coming
Up
Than
Get
Quite
May
Much
Ever
Harder
I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.
Bryan Adams
Myself
People
Rest
Three
Ways
Laurels
Able
Something
Never
Like
Because
Expected
Different
Wanted
Really
Different Ways
Present
Two
A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
Bryan Adams
Time
Song
Writing
Writes
Songs
Songwriter
Done
Just
Whereas
Anyone
Anytime
I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.
Bryan Adams
Age
Remember
Mind
Stars
Too
Entered
Never
Part
Idea
Being
Hollywood
Far-Fetched
Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.
Bryan Adams
Music
Focus
Became
Mates
Jamming
Clubs
Playing
I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
Bryan Adams
Never
Idea
Enamoured
Been
Celebrity
Being
I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.
Bryan Adams
Long
Year
Starts
Run
Long Run
Opposed
Fits
Going
Shows
I think all my videos suck.
Bryan Adams
Videos
Think
Suck
I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.
Bryan Adams
Time
You
Three
Go Away
Every
Changed
Every Time
Back
Month
Vancouver
More
Come
How
How Much
Amazed
Go
Much
Skyscrapers
Away
'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring before we even really get to know them, and after prolonged exposure, they can become mundane or oppressive.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
People
Become
Before
Seconds
Guess
Prolonged
Kind
About
Haunting
Alluring
Like
Know
Oppressive
Get
After
Spaces
Them
Really
Even
Exposure
Mundane
When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Culture
World
Dark
Though
Financially
Solvent
Super
Slowly
About
Something
More
Stuck
Had
Instinct
Between
Around
Felt
Pilgrim
Becoming
Real
Still
Comics
Scott
Middle
Arty
Cranky
In-Between
Turn
Dismissed
Popular
Series
I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
People
Confused
Water
Sometimes
Long
Definitely
Shallow
Firm
Firm Believer
Sort
Pilgrim
Goal
Scott
Beginnings
Get
Endings
Intent
Just
Stories
Really
Dismiss
Who
Novel
Believer
Prerogative
Tread
Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Book
Old
Bit
Release
Out
Kind
New
New Book
Always
Up
Going
Little
Little Bit
Old Ones
Each
Bolster
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