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"I cannot exist as a solo artist."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

"The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist."

"I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit."

"Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville."

"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."

"It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this."
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"Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion."

"I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best."

"Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything."

"I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky."

"I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!"

"I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band."
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