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"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true."
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"My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing."
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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"
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"She was a genius, my mother."
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"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers."
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"If I were like your mother, I would be a woman."
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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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"I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping."
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"The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again."
Loyalty

"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."
People

"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
People

"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
Music

"My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner."
Dream

"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy."
Years

"That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be."
Life

"It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars."
Music

"They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up."
Being

"I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary."
Life
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