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" My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits. "

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" When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about. "

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