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"I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs."
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"Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times."

"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."

"I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up."

"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."

"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."

"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."

"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats."

"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."

"We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up."
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"You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio."

"In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate."

"It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen."

"We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle."

"You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype."

"Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years."
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