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Jade Bird: 'I think I'm eclectic and I'm never afraid to not know an artist or a band or an album because I want to hear it.'

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Jade Bird: 'Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.'

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Jade Bird: 'My mum brought me up by herself, pretty much. She had me at the age of 20, and my grandmother was a single mother, too, for most of her life.'

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Jade Bird: 'I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a genre. It feels very limiting.'

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Jade Bird: 'Connecting with fans online can be the make or break or some artists, and I think that's a bit dangerous.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'I really don't believe in magic.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.'

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