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"A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception."
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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."

"Changing your perception will alter your interpretations and therefore, your reality. If you feel like you're hitting a wall because you simply don't understand something, or another person has a different approach, keep your mind open and willing to reinterpret it with fresh eyes, more information, a change in position, or a new perspective."

"Everybody loves comfort, but that is an illusion my friends."

"With your mind alert and your eyes wide open, you will be better able to assess your space and your place for optimizing exchanges and your communication impressions."

"When the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our mental world and surrenders willingly to the unguarded moments of life.For some time, the safeguards of our thinking pattern weaken and discontinue the decoding of the chips of daily reality.The mind picks the instants which are above suspicion, pure and innocent. ['Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh']"

"They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music - rather advanced music which you don't quite take in at the first hearing - than birds' songs ever are in our world."

"The creature was there, a curiously shaped creature no doubt, but all loathing had vanished clean out of his mind, so that neither then nor at any other time could he remember it, nor ever understand again why one should quarrel with an animal for having more legs or eyes than oneself."

"Some people aren't really light-teethed, they're merely dark-skinned."

"We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful."

"Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth."
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"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."


"These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over."


"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."


"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."


"Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat."


"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it."


"It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down."


"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."
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