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It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
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I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
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Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
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I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
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As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.
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I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.
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I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.
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I think good art does come from a dark place.
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They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
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I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.
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If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
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There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.
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I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.
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The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.
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I get inspired at different times and in different ways.
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I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.
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I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.
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You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.
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I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.
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I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
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My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.
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I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.
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Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.
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I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.
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