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"I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long."
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"We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by."
"I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around."I feel so wanted. Thanks."
"What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me."
"I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes."
"I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes."
"We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to."
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"As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling."
"They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second."
"I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling."
"I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed."
"My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing."
"The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet."
"I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions."
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