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I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.

From Del Shannon

I eat ice cream. It's better than booze.

From Del Shannon

I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news if you lived right in the middle of it.

From Del Shannon

If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows like Disneyland, I'll just do mainly hits. That's what they want to hear. I don't want to bore people. If I wanted that much to play nothing but 12 new songs, then I should go do it in a bar somewhere for peanuts.

From Del Shannon

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

From Del Shannon

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

From Del Shannon

I do me, and me is my hits. I'm out there really to satisfy the people.

From Del Shannon

I love to perform. But I don't like the traveling.

From Del Shannon

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

From Del Shannon

Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.

From Del Shannon

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