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"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."

"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
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"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."


"These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over."


"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."


"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."


"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it."


"It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down."


"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."
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