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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."

"Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."

"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."
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"It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?"

"I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other."

"So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs."

"But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him."

"But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles."

"When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds."
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