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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
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"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."
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"I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason."
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
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"One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."
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"I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts."
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"For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don't know why they picked me. That's what I've always done."
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"I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on."
Music
"The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy."
Body
"When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing."
Fun
"We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again."
Feelings
"At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart."
Time
"You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that."
People
"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."
Guitar
"One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it."
Night
"I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians."
Work
"It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing."
Life
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