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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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"What kind of songs do you like? she asked."The ones that remind me of you," I said."
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"That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music."
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"Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken."
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"A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music."
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"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."
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"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."
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"Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical."
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"I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music."
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"I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked."
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"I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations."
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"Mimicking people was something I did already."
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"Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list."
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"My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice."
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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people."
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"When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound."
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"I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people."
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"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
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