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Street Angel
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Blue Denim
- WDVE Raido Interview 1994 - "Well, I wrote this um, it's a song about this guy who came into my life but left just as quick. And his eyes were that intense, that it just makes you, even if you didn't know him, you would go like 'wow.' And you could be like, the toughest person but those eyes would make you be whatever he wanted you to be."
Greta
- Boston Herald 1994 - (Regarding the movie star Greta Garbo and what caused her to retire at the height of her fame, and the song Greta) "I wish I could
 have asked her (Gretta Garbo) 'What happened to you?' Anyone in my business asks themselves that question, 'do I really need this in my life?' But very few people actually walk away."
Listen to the Rain
- WMMR Raido Interview 1994 - "There is a very cool electric violin so when you hear a guitar playing kinda like Jimi Hendrix it's not, it's a violin which is totally cool. Um it's about don't take life for granted because you or the person next to you could get a horrible disease or something and die, and that would be a bummer, so it's really about to just take time and smell the roses, take time to live every moment with all your friends and everything cause they may not be with you always."
Rose Garden
- Tommy Vance Interview 1994 - "Rose Garden I wrote on the guitar when I was about sixteen years old. I was a sophomore in high school. I was very upset about something that I saw, just a little something that happened, and I just sat down and wrote that song. And then I always wanted to do it and it always seemed, again, not the right time for it. And this time I sat down and I actually played it on the guitar. I don't play guitar much anymore. The people I was working with said, 'well this is a serious song, and it's a good song, you know, it's a little kind of country' and, 'let's do it, let's do it' you know. And
 having Bernie Leadon, you know, with his Eagle background and his acoustic, he's so good, um you know, he just picked it right up and it was done. I mean, that was one of the songs that was worked out very very quickly. And it is recorded exactly the way that, I knew one pick, I knew the Joan Baez 'da da da dum dum' that kind of thing. So it was like 'you never promised me a rose garden da da da dum dum.' So that's how it was."
- Boston Herald 1994 - "That song is very much a premonition but I wrote it about some people in my family when I was just graduating high school. I wasn't in a band or anything. I wrote purely for myself on a guitar I got for my 16th birthday. I didn't want to be famous or anything I just loved to close myself up somewhere with candlelight and a really neat pen and paper and write. It became a very important thing for me."
Just Like a Woman
- Tommy Vance Interview 1994 - "I told Bob (Dylan) that someday I was gonna do Just Like a Woman. And he just sort of smiled his Bob Dylan smile and said 'cool', you know, cool. And so when I did it, I recorded it, I pretty much finished it and then I got people to get in touch with him and he came down to the studio and I knew I'd only get him to be there one night. So I played it for him and he just stood there with very little expression and when it was over, the first thing out of my mouth, I think, was like 'do you hate it? You hate it, right? It's horrible.' And he said to me, 'no, I like it really a lot.' He said 'you told me you were going to do this song someday' and he said, 'you're one of the few women I know that actually follows through on anything.' He said, 'I like it' And I said 'do you want to sing on it?' And he said 'no, I don't.' And I said 'why?' And he said 'because I think you sang it great.' He said, 'your philosophy you picked up from it, the way, from your interpretation of what I said is great. There's no reason for me to sing on it.' And I said 'will you play some guitar or some harmonica? Pleeeease?' And he said 'yeah I will.' And so he went out and he played a little guitar and he played a little harmonica. He came in and we listened to it and he said 'it's good, it's really good Stevie. And I hope that people really enjoy it again this time.' He said 'cool' and he left. And I think he wasn't really surprised that I did his song. He knew I loved his music."
- Boston Herald 1994 - "That song is very much a premonition but I wrote it about some people in my family when I was just graduating high school. I wasn't in a band or anything. I wrote purely for myself on a guitar I got for my 16th birthday. I didn't want to be famous or anything I just loved to close myself up somewhere with candlelight and a really neat pen and paper and write. It became a very important thing for me."
Jane
- WYSP Radio Interview 1991 - "I became friends with somebody who was really good friends with Jane (Goodall). They asked me if I would write a song. Michael Jackson said he would write it but he never did, so I agreed to write a song. It opened up a lot of wounds for me, it was a very difficult song for me to write. It's called "Jane's Song" and you'll hear it because it will be on the next record. We went to Dallas with Jane and I sang it live. It came out beautiful and it changed my life. It made me believe in a lot of things I didn't realize were possible, and she really is an angel. What she does is incredible. So, I wanted to be lifted above once again just being a rock & roll singer and do something time would remember."
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