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"I always saw myself as a multi media artist."
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"The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist."

"Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist."

"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."

"I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to."

"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."

"One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations."
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"I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place."

"This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records."

"Although we were The Spice Girls of 1984 in Europe, My work has never been widely promoted in the U.S."

"What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S."

"We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour."

"I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood."
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