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I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.

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Neil Diamond
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 24
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Neil Leslie Diamond
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