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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.

Barry Manilow

You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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Morning Next Stupid
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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Believe Fighting Giving
I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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Inspirational People Thinking
I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Love Music Opportunity
These 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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Idols Moving Reality
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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Blow Fabulous Hair
I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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Always Marry People Wanted
I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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Rude Stars Thinking
Keep your family and old friends around you. That’s what I had done and that’s what saved my life when it came to being famous.
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Done Family Friends Old
Sneakers are not my thing.
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Sneakers Thing Unlike
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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Beautiful Song Writing
Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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Always Choices Hands Involved Music Passion
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Enough Long Proof
We’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest.
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Friend Good Mistake New Year
I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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People Thinking Trouble
I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn’t even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
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Area Bridges Country Hips

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