"As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there."

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"As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there."

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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!"

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