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"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."
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"I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing."

"You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way."

"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."

"I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound."

"I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke."
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"I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege."

"Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium."

"I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out."

"You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense."

"It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after."

"Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World."

"It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here."

"So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night."
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