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"I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up."
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"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."

"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."

"Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times."

"I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18."

"I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs."

"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."

"There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify."

"Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me."

"I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far."
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"Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes."

"I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing."

"I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business."

"Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people."

"Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview."

"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."

"Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s."
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