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When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

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I only work with people I like.

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My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.

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My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

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Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.

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I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

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I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place.

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I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved.

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I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: September 19th, 1952

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