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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!

People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.

When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don't know why they picked me. That's what I've always done.

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal.

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.