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"Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste."

"I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me."

"I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing."
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"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."

"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."

"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."

"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."

"And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find."
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