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"I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years."
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"In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone."

"Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others."

"But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective."

"Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things."

"I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means."

"It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard."

"I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet."

"Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm."
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"I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves."

"As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me."

"But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers."

"You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause."

"It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black."
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