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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

Originally I considered myself a singer.

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.

I was a born singer.

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.