"Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there."

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"Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there."

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"As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs."

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"It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well."

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"I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me."

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"For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!"

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"I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives."

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