Many artists are consumed with their creativity -- and pretty soft-headed when it comes to business.

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"The rock is behaving well and it looks pretty soft, so that's encouraging, " he told BBC News.

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With help from Sam Spiegel a hip-hop-schooled producer who's also the brother of filmmaker Spike Jonze Show Your Bones has a big, spacious sound, some pretty, soft moments and fully-formed songs with big choruses and spiky hooks.

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And yet, the Titanium interior is pretty artful, a sinuous composition in soft-touch materials, alloy-like painted trim, textured fabric, that piano-black plastic assuming your Steinway is made by Mattel and lots of electrons.

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The degradation on the option tyre, the soft tyre, is going to be the key factor, and it's something we looked pretty good at yesterday, so it's going to be a long race.

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