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Art is a continuum.
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I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!
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Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.
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The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.
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Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.
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If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?
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I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.
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You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.
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I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.
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I do a project, and then I move on.
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Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.
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Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
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In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.
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I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.
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As I got older, my voice got better.
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I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call the ad libs - that just comes out of my head. That's not thought out at all. I have the verses and the choruses, and then after that it's total improvisation.
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Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
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I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.
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I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.
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I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.
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If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.
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The Internet allows me to be more free.
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I've been traveling around the world forever.
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I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.