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You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

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There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing.

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

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My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

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I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

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I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

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I'm a liberal arts junkie.

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I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: February 21st, 1958

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