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" I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.' "

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" The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category. "

" When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs. "

" I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically. "

" Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together. "

" I'm always reading something. "

" We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed. "

" Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good. "

" The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. "

" 'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. "

" I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school. "

" When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months. "

" The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions. "

" I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000. "

" I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot. "

" When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember. "

" I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. "

" To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me. "

" I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage. "

" You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free. "

" There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal. "

" The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money. "

" I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves. "

" It's the music that brings us together. "

" I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique. "

" I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well. "

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" A good mustache makes a man for many reasons. "

" Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world. "