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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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Personal Development
"I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write."
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"It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got."
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"Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise."
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"There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts."
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"I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing."
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"I always write the pieces I want to write."
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"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
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"The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive."
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"I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me."
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"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
"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."
Clothes
"It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black."
First
"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."
Folk
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