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"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."

"I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you."

"I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound."

"I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson."

"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."

"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."

"I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five."

"An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me."
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"Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women."


"I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me."


"Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time."


"Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family."
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