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I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

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I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

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My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

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The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

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Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

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I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

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Make your own music. It can be done.

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I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

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I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

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I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: February 24th, 1962

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