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"I never decided to start singing, to be a singer."
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"Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin."

"I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing."

"My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice."

"I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you."

"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."

"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."

"I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson."
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"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."


"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."


"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."


"We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive."


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


"I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for."
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