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" We'll set up a demo session and try to knock out eight or ten songs and make them sound as close as we can to a record with the money and time we have. "
Shane McAnally
Try
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" One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the songwriter, they don't get to insert their own characters. I don't want the audience thinking about the gay guy who wrote the song. "
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" The truth is, I probably would be dead if I had become a star, because at that point I was so closeted and so afraid of people of finding out I was gay. There was no telling what would have happened. "
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" West Hollywood blew my mind: gay men walking down the street, kissing and holding hands. I'd never imagined there was a place like that. "
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" I wake up every day thinking, 'I just can't do it anymore.' There's nothing left to say, and I'm completely dry. And then I get in the room with somebody and they say the right thing, and I'm on again. "
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