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"I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't."
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"I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts."
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"It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great."
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"We are what we think."
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"I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars."
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"I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how."
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"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."
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"I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring."
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"Think of what you desire out of life."
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"A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter."
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"In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding."
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"I'm not a control freak."
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"I read on the Internet that I was dead."
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"I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes."
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"I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible."
People

"I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it."
Work

"There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl."
Children

"I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while."
Limitation

"I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while."
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"I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons."
People

"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."
Job
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