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"Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music."
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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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