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“Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?”

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I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were very successful in many ways, but they weren't necessarily top of the charts. We were never wealthy because of music. We always had to work and we always had to struggle a little bit, and I think at…

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