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Nothing Really Matters; Love Is All We Need.

If I Can't Be Daring In My Work Or The Way I Live My Life, Then I Don't Really See The Point Of Being On This Planet.

When I First Came To New York I Was A Dancer, And A French Record Label Offered Me A Recording Contract And I Had To Go To Paris To Do It. So I Went There And That's How I Really Got Into The Music Business. But I Didn't Like What I Was Doing When I Got There, So I Left, And I Never Did A Record There.

I Like Coming Up With These Spectacular Extravaganzas That Will, Hopefully, Totally Blow People Away. But I Also Like The Intimacy Of Stopping It All And Sitting At The Edge Of The Stage And Connecting With Individual People In The Audience.

My Goal From The Very Beginning Was Just To Write Good Songs That Don't Require Any Production To Be Felt Or Understood. I Wanted To Be Able To Sit In A Room With A Guitar And Play The Song From Beginning To End And Have It Be As Impactful As If You Heard The Studio Version With All The Bells And Whistles.