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"I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way."
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"Now I'm kind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team and I still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back."
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Personal Development
"Look down the road I'm traveling and you will see my goal, it's there on the path. Probably closer than it appears. Life tends to roll that way."
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Personal Development
"My goals may seem impossibly far-fetched when really they're not. Break them down into steps and see how I accomplish great things. I can easily reach from A to B. I can manage from B to C. I can then make it from C to D. And so eventually, I will find my way from A to Z."
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Personal Development
"Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal."
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Personal Development
"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
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"You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!"
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"Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted."
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Personal Development
"To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it."
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Personal Development
"We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal."
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"If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast."
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"Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances."
Music
"I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way."
Holiday
"I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way."
Goal
"My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel."
Father
"Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff."
Experience
"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
Artist
"I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to."
Life
"It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status."
Work
"I love playing to people and seeing them react."
Love
"My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by."
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