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I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
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I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.
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I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'
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If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy.
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I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.
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Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.
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I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.
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When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.
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The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.
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Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.
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There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.
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I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.
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Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment.
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The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.
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I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.
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The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.
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I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
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With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.
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I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.
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I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.
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My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
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I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B.
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I'm always reading something.
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My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.
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I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.
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The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.
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You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.
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I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.
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When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.
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People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year's resolution to a lifestyle.
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I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since '96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That's a pretty good resume.
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I watch just as much WWE as almost anyone, but I love to. It's something I enjoy doing. I don't force myself to watch. I get excited for Mondays. I get excited to see the show.
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The conditioning and the lifestyle changes you have to make to remain a healthy athlete are what molded me into what I am today.
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I hate any match that isn't a traditional Tag Team Match or a traditional Singles Match, because anything can happen. It's truly one of those deals where it's all about being in the right place at the right time.
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My favorite thing about 'Saturday Night's Main Event,' it was that one time where I could stay up late with my dad and four brothers, and we would all beat the tar out of each other while the show was on, and it was all okay because my dad was a wrestling fan.
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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do.
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In 1985, if you were a wrestling fan, you were into Hogan; that's just the way it was.
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Every member of the U.S. Armed Forces knows what they signed up for, and they know what their job is, and they are proud of their job.
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Entertainment is often a medium in which you can put yourself front and center.
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I eat well. I don't really, I guess, like, steam my own food and cook my own food in advance. I enjoy food, but I just don't make bad decisions.
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Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing home run derby with my old man, we just watched wrestling together.
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I had reconstructive pectoral surgery, I had a cervical neck fusion and a scope, and the scope was the toughest.
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Blood is one of the things that made fights cool. Like, you knew it had gotten serious. I understand why we don't do it anymore.
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Your job as a superstar is to manipulate the audience and try to tell your story. I like the dynamic of the audience.
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I really, really, really love my job, so it's not like I'm trying to quit wrestling to do movies. They just all seemed like cool things to do. I mean, I'd love to be the bad guy in an action movie because then people would get to see another side of me they don't get to see.
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My dad is not a sports guy but was drawn to the theatrics of wrestling.
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My hats off to anybody filming action, because you get beat up. If I'm going to get the crap kicked out of me, I would love 15,000 people on hand to tell me that I'm doing good or I'm doing bad. So, if I'm going to be in any physical duress, I'd really like it to be in a WWE ring, which is why I was so amped to be a part of 'Trainwreck.'
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There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.
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Oftentimes, WWE lives in its own bubble because it is forever moving. Oftentimes, a motion picture will live in its own bubble because they have a certain amount of time to get everything done. It's just, when you connect the two and get everything straightened out, truly, it may take a little elbow grease.
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I've met fans that are 9 months old to 90 years old.
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