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"You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way."
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"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."
"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."
"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."
"I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to."
"I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway."
"I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five."
"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
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"We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity."
"So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection."
"Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert."
"So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone."
"When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural."
"Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values."
"Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family."
"I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball."
"Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work."
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