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• ‟ I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.

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• ‟ When I was born, I had a birth injury in my second and third vertebrae. It gave me what they called spastic paralysis, which is actually cerebral palsy.

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• ‟ I had two parts of my body: my left side, which was strong and somewhat dumb, and the other side was weak and hard to control but perhaps smarter. It gave me a very strong sense of the duality of the plane that we live in.

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• ‟ I was playing with George Harrison one time, and George loves takes. This song was up to Take 160. I said, 'George, do you want me to play the same thing or 160 different things?' It drove me crazy because, in general, I'm ready to play my part.

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• ‟ I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.

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• ‟ Apparently I was a Billboard top touring act of 1973, but nobody told me.

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• ‟ I've avoided the press and a lot of stuff that would have made me more visible just because it's not my style.

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• ‟ I'm not so much of a person for causes, unless I specifically - for instance, if it's my cause, or some poor people's, I'll try to help. But you won't find me playing for any peace candidates - or any candidates.

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• ‟ I've always felt I struck out with Doris Day. Her son, Terry Melcher, was a producer I worked for at Columbia, and one day, he asked me to go to her house to play piano on a song she was doing. So I get there, and she has about 30 dogs running around the place - turns out she's a dog rescuer.

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• ‟ My feet are giving out on me. But I have a wheelchair that folds out on my tour bus. I've also got this little tricycle, so if I want to go someplace, I get those out.

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• ‟ California always struck me as a police state.

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• ‟ I'm not as aware of categories in music as some people are. To me it's just music. I'm interested in all kinds of music.

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• ‟ Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely forthcoming.

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• ‟ When I was in grade school, I had a little duet act with a guy who was a beautiful singer, and somebody recorded it on a wire machine. They played it back for us, and I went, 'I hear Donald, but what is that other ugly voice?' It turned out to be me, of course.

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