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"I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
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"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
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"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."
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"However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US."
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"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
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"I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?"
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"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"
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"I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe."
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"I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life."
Life
"I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted."
Artist
"My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album."
Music
"But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do."
Idea
"The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless."
Music
"Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums."
Experience
"I never excluded any genre on my first record."
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"Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with."
Success
"I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others."
Europe
"I never listened to country music growing up."
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