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" I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room! "
Music
Time
Love
" I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track. "
Musically
I Can
Best
" If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains - the things closer to the Earth - it's a lot better for the Earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people. "
Earth
Back
Better
" If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that. "
Better
You
Through
" I guess you deal with what you get. "
Guess
You
Deal
" I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really. "
Trouble
Done
Kind
" I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style. "
Version
Every
Go
" I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect. "
Music
Writing
Think
" I'm glad if people can listen to some music and maybe fix some prejudices of their own, just by thinking. "
Listen
Own
Thinking
" I'm not sure I know how to make music anymore. Maybe you're given a window into things for a time, and beyond that maybe it goes away. Why should you expect it to stay? "
Music
Know
You
" I'm pretty indiscriminating, and I have awful taste, generally. "
Taste
Generally
Awful
" I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can. "
Never
Off
People
" In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my little boogie-woogie thing that I did, so I did my little boogie-woogie thing. I had a very high-pitched voice. "
Jazz
High School
Voice
" In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there? "
City
New
New York
" In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer. "
Someone
Singer
More
" I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there. "
Care
Say
People
" I think I have advanced ADD. "
Advanced
Think
I Think
" I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things. "
Think
Wish
I Wish
" I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over. "
Talent
Thought
Go
" I tried to be just a singer of standards when I was starting out. And there was nothing special enough about my voice to make it that far. So I feel a bit like Rod Stewart. Once you've had that rock career, people will give you that chance where otherwise they might not. "
Rock
People
Enough
" It's always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It's even harder playing in your hometown - and I have a couple of home towns - but, you're playing for all the people you knew in high school, so it causes no small degree of panic in my mind. "
Small
Mind
School
" I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse. "
Day
End
End Of The Day
" I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying. "
Worth
Will
Well
" Less money for public media means less access to the arts. "
Media
Money
Public
" Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life. "
Life
You
Love
" Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium. "
Desires
Subconscious
Better
" Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable. "
Music
Independent
Free
" The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day. "
Play
Child
Destiny
" There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos. "
Me
Side
" Toronto's a delightful city. "
Delightful
Toronto
City
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