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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project."
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"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."
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"I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful."
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"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."
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"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."
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"I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music."
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"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is."
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"I'm not a control freak."
Control

"I read on the Internet that I was dead."
Internet

"I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes."
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"I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible."
People

"I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it."
Work

"There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl."
Children

"I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while."
Time

"I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons."
People

"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."
Job

"I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore."
Self
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