"I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur."
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"My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle."
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"Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin."
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"When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it."
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"The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together."
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"I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope."
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"I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree."
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"I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again."
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"As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot."
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"Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone."
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"Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'"
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"I really love playing music with other people. It's more fun to be on the road with others. It's kind of lonely out there when you play on your own!"
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"I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods."
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"I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about."
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"I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished."
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"Now love's the only thing that's free /We must take it where it's found /Pretty soon it may be costly"
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"I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me."
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