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" I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make. "

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" I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay. "

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" I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been. "

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