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All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Dabble
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With any long-term relationship, you have good days and bad days.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Long Term
Bad Days
Good Relationship Bad
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I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Thread
Cohesive
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When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Famous
Married
Seeing
Famous People Know
Famous People
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My real priorities were my family - my kids and Bruce - and my work with the E Street Band.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Priorities
Bruce
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I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Different Kinds
Music Own My Own
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You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Terribly
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I was always friends with a lot of guys, maybe because their girlfriends were girly-girls, and they felt safe with me.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Girlfriends
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Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Center
Intact
Partner
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You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Ensure
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For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Morning Person
Writing
Asleep
Early
Nicest
While
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People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album 'Rumble Doll,' yes. It's always that thing that this is a dilettante or a pet project.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Pet
Always People Doing
Dilettante
Doll
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We always make a hot breakfast for the kids: oatmeal, pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, the whole deal. We like to have that time in the morning together as a family.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Breakfast
Eggs
Oatmeal
Pancakes
Bacon
Family Time Morning
Scrambled
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There was such a lack of modern, recognizable role models for a young girl in the 1950s. I mean, 'Leave It to Beaver' didn't speak to me. That's why I latched on to music.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Models
Role Models
Beaver
Music Me Young
Recognizable
Young Girl
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When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Music
Song
Writing
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I did feel funny about being fair and having red hair and freckles. I did not like that because I grew up in a neighbourhood where no one had red hair. I felt very conspicuous but not in a nice way.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Freckles
Red Hair
Conspicuous
Neighbourhood
Nice Way
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I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Neatness
Purity
Way Woman Your
Physical
Supposed
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When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Clip
Holiday
Looks
Lovely
Moments
Pianist
Radio
Television
Younger
Baritone
Bassist
Gerry
Mine
Museum
Sax
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