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"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."
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"I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound."
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"You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing."
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"You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad."
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"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."
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"The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument."
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"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."
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"Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously."
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"I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15."
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"I never decided to start singing, to be a singer."
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"I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns."
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"If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write."
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"It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords."
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"You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day."
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"I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of."
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"Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift."
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"We're kind of defined by our mistakes."
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"On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me."
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"When it stops being fun, stop."
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"I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road."
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"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."
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