"I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music."

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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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"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."

Glenda Jackson, British Actress

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"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."

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"Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical."

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"So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message."

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"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."

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"I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really."

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"It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing."

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"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."

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"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."

Want

"Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together."

Time

"Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano."

Work

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."

Promise

"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."

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"But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people."

Work

"To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me."

Work

"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."

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"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan."

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"I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image."

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