You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
BARRY MANILOWThese days, with ‘American Idol’ and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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QVC has been very good to me.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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First of all, I’ve been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn’t write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
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The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You’ve got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You’ve got to go out and fight for it.
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I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don’t look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don’t look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That’s what I do.
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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they’re full of muscle. ‘Copacabana’ sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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