Taylor Dayne

I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results.

working trainer out results

I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

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Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

think marketing black people

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

person game me character

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

better myself me love

I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

more will you way

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

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The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

good family time men

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

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Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

picked hell business

So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

extreme working out things

Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

control i-am need nature

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

artists rather always inspirational

My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.

road first just you

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.

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