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Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.
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You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.
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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.
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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
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I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody.
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Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.
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It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.
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I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.
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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.
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I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.
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I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.
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