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" Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. "

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" My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh? "

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" I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small. "

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" It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. "

" During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs. "

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" If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? "

" The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. "

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