It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier.

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Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

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Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

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Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

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Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

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If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

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Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.

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I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.

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I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

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The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

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