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"I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds."
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"Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine."

"How'd you know he was the one?""I didn't know. I don't think either of us knew."Heather rolled her eyes. "Neal knew - he proposed to you.""It's not like that," Georgie said. "You'll see. It's more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one - and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you're right."

"When love is roaming in our mind, looping in the deepest fringes of our heart, undreamt spaciousness emerges, repealing the constraints of triviality and letting stifling narrowness fade away. While our mindset is besieged by a revolving burst of emotion, our world is ultimately opening up. ['Cape of good hope']"

"I believe in romance... in playfulness... in passion... in expressing feelings... in friendship... in all the ways love heals, nourishes, and transforms "you" and "me" into an "us"."

"When you finally meet the right one for you, it suddenly becomes clear why everyone else was so wrong."
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"Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively."


"I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out."


"Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already."


"If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write."


"We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals."


"It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords."


"I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about."


"As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member."
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