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"Every single note on this album is there for a reason."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."

"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."

"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."

"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
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"When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s."


"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."


"Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is."


"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."


"A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it."


"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."


"Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow."
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