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A friend of mine pointed out to me, Why do you separate your writing and your music? I got (writers) Rick Moody and Jonathan Ames to do the first one, and it just kind of gathered steam then NPR picked it up. It is a nice way for me to marry both sides of my career, a move that's probably culminated in me dropping the name John Wesley Harding.

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If they'd said, Do you want to be John Wesley Harding or Wesley Stace in 25 years' time? I would have said Wesley Stace, but I wasn't to know.
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