"I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing."

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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

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"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."

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"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."

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"So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message."

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"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."

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"I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really."

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"It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing."

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"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."

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"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody."

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"I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves."

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"I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it."

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"Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic."

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"I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth."

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"Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't."

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"My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything."

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"So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had."

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"I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years."

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