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"I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity."
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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
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"Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light."
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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
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"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."
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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."
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"Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not."
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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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"Fire tries gold misery tries brave men."
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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
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"I've never written a song that I thought was a hit."
Thought
"I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do."
Music
"I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose."
Nothing
"As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award."
Winning
"I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?"
Freedom
"But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997."
Father
"But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs."
Fun
"The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now."
People
"One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress."
Time
"I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now."
Life
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