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" I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me. "

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" I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go. "

" What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated. "

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" I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because it's not their profession to do that. "

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