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"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."
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"I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you."
"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."
"I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."
"I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15."
"I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke."
"I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound."
"You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way."
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"I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted."
"As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs."
"I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure."
"Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks."
"I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there."
"When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine."
"I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me."
"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
"I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year."
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