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I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.

When I'm singing, I'm another person. I can be really free, in the sense that I can do whatever I want.

I'm a pro-growth, small-government conservative with a background in free enterprise.

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

I'm an artist, but, as I get older, I really want to do philanthropic work and help people.