The music is key. It has the ...

The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.
 Neil Diamond

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Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.
 Neil Diamond
I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and fellow tweeters out there.
 Neil Diamond
I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.
 Neil Diamond
My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.
 Neil Diamond
I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.
 Neil Diamond