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"I privilege the music over the lyrics."
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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."
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"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."
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"It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it."
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"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."
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"What kind of songs do you like? she asked."The ones that remind me of you," I said."
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"I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that."
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"Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own."
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"But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment."
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"I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it."
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"My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected."
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"It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do."
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"And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve."
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"I actually am always a music first person."
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"I started playing music at a pretty young age."
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"So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity."
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"Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration."
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"Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists."
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