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"I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity."
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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
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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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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."
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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."
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"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."
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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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"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."
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"I've never written a song that I thought was a hit."
Thought

"I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make."
Music

"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 didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs."
Love

"I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity."
Adversity

"But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs."
Fun

"When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested."
Interest

"And to any new fans we made along the way, I say... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going."
Fans

"But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever."
Business

"So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy."
Enemy
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