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"There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing."
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"I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world."
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