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I'm not a betting man.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Men
Betting
Man
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The story behind every song is individual to itself.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Individual
Song
Stories
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To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Keys
Records
Relevant
Thinking
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It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Interpret
Listener
Meanings
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Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Bigs
Events
Gigs
Traditional
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We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Overnight Success
Problem
Want
Brings
Overnight
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The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Bowie
Done
Naturally
David
Come And Go
Neil
Neil Young
Press
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Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Directing
Next Step
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Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to see our show, We all had a drink before they set off on their travels, and we kept in touch.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Drink
Had
Touch
Before
Show
Came
Charley
Set
Off
See
Travels
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I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Hotel
Ideas
Ritual
Song
Writing
Hits
Hotel Room
Plane
Special Place
Whenever
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The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Millennium
Tsunami
Concert
Liked
Stadium
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Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Japan
Sound
Waiting
Weird
Crowd
Respond
Drop
Wait
Literally
Pin
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Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Albums
Four
Massive
Next
Release
Sold
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Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Easier
Frustrating
Revising
Song
Stuff
Screenplay
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Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Albums
Band
Covered
Fourth
Two
Album
Third
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When I first knew I was having children, I thought I wanted boys, but then I thought I'd be better with girls. I'm quite sensitive, and you get more cuddles with girls. And they like their dads.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Having Children
Sensitive
Better Children More
Dads
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We changed every lead in our whole system, and to this day we still don't really know why it did it. We think wires were touching and faulting. That was it really, but it didn't make it any easier.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Easier
Wires
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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Starting
Brings
In The Beginning
Reminds
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I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Kings
Japan
Party
Song
Great Songs
Label
Record Label
Uk
Vibe
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The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Cold
Dakota
Guitar
Hotel
Paris
Song
Hotel Room
Promo
Quick
Snowing
Trip
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A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Giving
Sometimes
Trying
Feed
Performance
Whenever
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When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Beer
Cities
Eye
Minutes
Spread
Time Eyes Your
Anywhere
Tour
Trip
Uk
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We've got a great bench of songs, and the people have a really good time at our Stereophonics's shows. People are the same all over the world. If we can play football stadiums and arenas in one country, there's no reason we can't play them in another country. People are people.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Country
Football
Song
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If you repeat what you did in the last tour, the likelihood is it's not gonna be successful twice. People are nostalgic about a particular record, because it's about the time when they were listening to that record. But if you do it again, they're like, I'm not that guy anymore.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Guy
People
Successful
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There's a good sarcasm and a camaraderie that comes after being in a band. And we've known each other forever. We've never been a band that fought or argued. As a songwriter, I'm really happy that the boys support me and contribute and that, but I've always wanted to be under the band Stereophonics.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Boys
Sarcasm
Support
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Our band Stereophonics never wanted to release a couple records and be the biggest band in the world for 10 minutes. We always wanted to stand the test of time, and make great music that people would want to listen to and that music lasts. We'd looked up to artists and bands that had big back catalogues.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Couple
People
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I didn't really feel any pressure when I've made records, I haven't as yet anyway. I feel when I'm making a record that I'm so excited about making new songs that when I'm doing demos of new songs, as soon as I make one that's really different I get really excited about the record, I don't care about the last record anymore.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Different
Records
Song
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It's a completely different way of working when you have your own place for recording. It's like if you were a painter, and you do loads of painting, and you just pick which paintings you want to exhibit. It's a much nicer, freer way of making work; you're not limited to anything, and you can make these cool, weird little albums.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Different
Painter
Painting
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The culture's changed massively. The kids are different, with the phones and stuff. Even if you like a song, you don't really know who the artists are, it's a lot more faceless, it's a lot less tribal. When we were growing up it was much more tribal - it was rock, it was grunge. Now people like songs, [but] they don't necessarily know the song's origins. I don't know how you would feel angry at the world, or distressed, because most people are constantly distracted or consumed.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Growing Up
Song
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Every song I've written, it's about what I've gone through, good or bad. It kind of comes out of me, and I'm grateful for that. I've got friends who are back home who've got no way to express that, and they're kind of in a different position in life. It's alarming to me that I've written something on my bedroom floor when I was 19 or something, and then there's 50,000 people that know the words, and they've got a similar feeling. If you thought about it too much, your head would blow up.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Home
Grateful
Song
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I don't really know how to do anything else except music. But I do. I've never felt more comfortable doing it. When I was put into arenas and stadiums when I was 27, I always thought somebody was going to say, 'No, they're not here for you.' You don't quite believe that they actually like you, because it's an extreme change in your life. Which is insane really, because they bought the ticket. So you start feeling more comfortable in your skin the more you do something, or the older you get.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Feelings
Insane
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To maintain a consistency when people come to see the band takes a lot of work; it takes a lot of discipline. I go to the studio every day and sing and play. I never did that when I was, like, 30. I'd probably have a drink and walk on - and see what comes out. But now if there's ten albums' worth of material people are coming to hear some of, and they've paid money for a ticket, you become a different person when you go on and you want to give the best show you can. You want to be better at what you do.
Kelly Jones / Singer-Songwriter
Discipline
Giving
People
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