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When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.

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Vanessa Carlton
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: August 16
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Milford
Pennsylvania
Vanessa Lee Carlton
Heroes
Hero
Lies
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Therein
Lying
Thieves
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The heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man.
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I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
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But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.
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But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.
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I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.
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Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder... If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight.
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I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
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I was very lucky to be offered a lovely piece of property to build a career on. I started building a house on it, but it wasn't necessarily a house I would want to live in. So I ripped down that house, and I worked with these great lumberjacks to build a really cool cabin-a place I want to drink whiskey in and hang out until the sun rises.
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But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.
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I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.
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The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
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My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
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I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together.
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You can derive everything that is healthy for yourself in the woods.
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I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.
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Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
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