I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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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When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.
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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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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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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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If I Should Love Again’ – I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn’t a single and people didn’t really know about it, but it’s a beautiful song and that’s part of what I’m loving.
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You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn’t crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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