- Nov 07, 2020
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- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I'll be singing.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, 'Not yet!' I pulled back.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I've done I've just fallen into.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been tired since I was 15.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm afraid of me.
- Full
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020