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"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."

"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."

"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."

"My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that."
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"The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good."

"It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game."

"Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed."

"Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly."

"I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me."
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