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"The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet."
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"Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it."
"Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along."
"If you want to know the value of a day, ask someone who could not find food to eat or water to drink for a whole day when he is hungry."
"Water on earth came from space. Everything which is there was once upon a time not there and everything which is there shall return again to wherever they come from! When you see a beautiful ocean, or beautiful anything, remember this and appreciate them well!"
"Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful."
"Fantasizing about the future is not wrong until and unless you are not missing the beauty of the present!"
"When we don't see the value of a thing, we don't put the protective edge."
"I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases....."
"Always celebrate people for who they are."
"You cannot truly enjoy a flower until you can see her inner beauty and feel her purpose of life."
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"I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions."
"As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling."
"They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second."
"Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music."
"I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling."
"I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world."
"I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed."
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