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"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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"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."
"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
"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."
"You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way."
"I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you."
"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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"This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome."
"I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really."
"I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians."
"I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away."
"It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic."
"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."
"I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question."
"I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal."
"I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer."
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