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" The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time. "

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" Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form. "

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" I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side. "

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