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I owe everything to the musicians I work with.
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I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
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I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
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It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
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I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.
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People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.
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It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.
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My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
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I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
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All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.
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I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.
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I listen to the crowds... I like Blind Melon very much.
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I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.
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A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.
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Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.
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How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
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It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
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I hate cliche.
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You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.
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There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.
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I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.
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No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.
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So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.
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I hate wasting time.