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Profession: Musician
Nationality: American
Birthday: October 16, 1977

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George Jones is country soul. Once this kind of music sits in you and you take it all, it reaches down into your soul. George Jones to me was one of the most soulful singers of any genre. That drew me to his music. He knew how to present a song without really thinking about it.

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For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

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I love the idea of waking up to a song. It could be any song.

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I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

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If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat.

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If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

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Sometimes you want something really serious that makes you feel emotional and makes you think, and sometimes you do just want a pop song. What I love about Taylor Swift is that she offers both.

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Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.

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When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

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The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

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I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

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I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.

Michelle Rodriguez

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Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.

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I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

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Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

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I don't want to just be a teenage star. I want to be known by parents, and I want them to go, 'Oh I love that song; he's really good for his age. My daughter loves him, but I love him, too.'

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When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.

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I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or 'Sherry,' I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

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When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

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I want that fifth championship. If that does not present itself, then I'm closer to retirement.

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