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"I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing."
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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
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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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"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."
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"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."
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"It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it."
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"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."
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"What kind of songs do you like? she asked."The ones that remind me of you," I said."
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"I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that."
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"It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music."
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"Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls."
Business
"No, because I was always nervous about being onstage."
Being
"Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't."
Music
"But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers."
Brother
"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody."
Heart
"Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music."
Music
"I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack."
Fear
"I think that most people really know if it's a really great album."
People
"Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four."
Life
"As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me."
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