"It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record."

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"It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record."

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"I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there."

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"In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years."

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