I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.
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I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it's much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it's always been a man's world.Lesley Gore
And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.
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Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them.
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You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.
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There's no point in alienating your fan base. What I think you want to do is bring them along and then pick up a few more people along the way.
Lesley Gore
I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.
Lesley Gore
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