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"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."
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"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."
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"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."
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"Writing is an incredibly lonely job."
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"When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace."
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"That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other."
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"We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job."
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"I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces."
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"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't."
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"I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working."
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"People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education."
Education

"I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive."
Acting

"At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing."
Choice

"It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body."
Body

"It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century."
Theatre

"To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard."
Knowledge

"Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor."
Music

"I was born into a family of preachers."
Family

"The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that."
Old

"I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment."
Anger
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