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"I never decided to start singing, to be a singer."
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"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."

"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."

"I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to."

"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."

"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."

"There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me."

"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."

"After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible."
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"Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs."

"If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics."

"I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher."

"What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much."
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