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"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
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"I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off."
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"I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly."
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"I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'."
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"I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials."
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"It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush."
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"One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything."
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"We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour."
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"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"
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"I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there."
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"I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?"
Dumb
"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."
Singing
"I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world."
Pressure
"About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas."
Age
"I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege."
Time
"Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium."
Music
"I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out."
Home
"As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time."
Time
"My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India."
Beauty
"You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense."
Life
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