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"The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear."
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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."
"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."
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"I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand."
"I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word."
"I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me."
"I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian."
"Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator."
"What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another."
"Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business."
"But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different."
"Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that."
"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison."
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