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Invariably, collaboration leads to new forms of self-expression and to the things that move you.

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Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road.

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For me, my career has never been about what I've done. But it's been about becoming, achieving, and pushing myself further.

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Of course, you can't teach songwriting. You can only encourage people to do it and help them to sort out for themselves what they want to achieve, and get a list of exercises together that improves the craft and gives them more access to the craft of writing good songs.

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My father had a perfectly good drummer who he had an argument with. So one day, on a Tuesday, my father came in with a cheap pawn shop set of drums and said, 'Put your foot here, and you kick there, and you play this, and this is the high hat.' And Friday night, I was playing in a honky-tonk.

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Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say.

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As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that's something I cultivate.

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I'm under-appreciated, of course.

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Violence was very much a part of my mother's upbringing - a little less so with my father's, but my father was an angry man when he was young. He was angry and frustrated and had no idea how to channel anger.

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My mother was apt to fall out on the floor and start speaking in tongues. Actually, it was a great performance... It was great theater. As a 5-year-old, I understood that, although it scared me and there was a little part of me going, 'I don't know about this. This seems over-the-top to me,' at the same time, I did understand that this was passion.

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Biography

Nationality: Algerian

Type: Musician

Born: August 7th, 1950

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