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"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."
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"I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."

"I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing."

"You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way."

"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."

"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."

"There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me."

"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."

"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."
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"Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively."


"Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band."


"Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones."


"I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about."


"I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds."
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