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"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."

"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."

"I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to."

"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."

"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."

"There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me."

"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."
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"People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down."

"I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from."

"When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity."

"Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not."

"I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent."

"There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done."
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