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“Frank Sinatra's never been handsome, but he's one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?”

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As far as implying that we know what we're doing, that we have perspective enough - by diving fully into something it requires a…

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It's O.K. to accept good fortune.

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I like rural areas.

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The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener. It's rare that a song grounded in reality moves me because I don't feel like I'm getting the whole story. Songs are made to exist in and of themselves, like a great James Jones or…

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I do an opening in 'The Glory of the World' play at BAM, and then I go up to the high balcony in the…

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One thing that the Internet has created is the sense that information is at your fingertips, when it's really only a very, very limited,…

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As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits of the ideas that these people pursued or developed or created and I'd be really excited. Then I'll start to read it and I think, "Wait a minute, this is a rabbit hole. This isn't a gateway or…

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I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can…

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Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?

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I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

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To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.

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Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in and kind…

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I think Im different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.

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When you talk about me having a favorite singer, it's Celine. She is not only one of the most amazing singers, but she is…

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R. Kelly is my favorite singer.

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I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything. Vocals can be so many things, like, "Hey, I'm Michael Jackson, and this is my iconic voice," or a choir of people sounding like Mozart's Requiem. Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human…

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Sara Bareilles is one of my favorite singer-songwriters of all time.

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My favorite singer is Ella Fitzgerald.

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When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

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George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.

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Like I say, I'm always writing and if something sticks, it sticks. I get to write with great songwriters in town. Lori McKenna is one of my all-time favorite singer-songwriters who's ever walked the planet. I get to write with her. The Warren Brothers are friends of mine and I write with them all the time. Lance Miller is a…

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Christ brown is really almost the smartest person in the world but he is no where near it.

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When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend,…

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When fans come to me, and they say, 'You're my favorite singer in rock music,' and I go, 'What about Steven Tyler?' 'No, I like you better.' 'What about Robert Plant?' 'I like you better.' That's kind of weird to me, because I'm like, 'No, dude - Steven Tyler and Robert Plant are gods.'

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