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"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."
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"You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing."
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"You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad."
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"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."
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"The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument."
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"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."
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"I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15."
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"I never decided to start singing, to be a singer."
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"I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns."
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"If you feel like singing along, don't."
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"How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing."
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"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."
Singing
"I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world."
Pressure
"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."
Feelings
"You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way."
Money
"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."
Time
"I'm a liberal arts junkie."
Liberal
"Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World."
Work
"My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India."
Beauty
"I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job."
College
"As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time."
Time
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