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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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