"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."

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"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."

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"Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs."

France

"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."

Quiet

"So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had."

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"Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls."

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"Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music."

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"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."

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"I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs."

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"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody."

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"No, because I was always nervous about being onstage."

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"No, because I've never really changed my style that much."

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