"I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that's where I started. It doesn't make any sense because he was gay, but it was just the idea of the short guy and the beautiful blonde out of his league. That's where I started, but very quickly it became about me."

-- Teddy Thompson

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“Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks â€˜the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,â€™.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When Iâ€™m writing, I write. And then itâ€™s as if the muse is convinced that Iâ€™m serious and says, â€˜Okay. Okay. Iâ€™ll come.”
“I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.”
“My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.”
“There was this one lady in Colorado who made us something ceramic, where it could have been either a ring holder or a bowl cleaner. She was just like, "Here you go." And we were both like, "Oh my god! Thank yoooou!"”
“That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.”
“Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.”
“I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I've gotten older, my influences have broadened - John Mayer, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Keith Urban, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Beatles - all of these artists have somehow been a part of my development as a songwriter.”

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