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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 came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing."

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

"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."

"But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud."

"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."

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

"Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin."

"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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"I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song."


"People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?"


"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."


"We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise."


"Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs."


"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."


"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."
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