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"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."
Family

"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."
Music

"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."
Attention

"Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had."
Fun

"I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human."
People

"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."
Time

"I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music."
Music

"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."
Cause

"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."
Money

"I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else."
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"I need attention?No...I need victim....!"
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"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."
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"N order to capture someone's attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in."
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"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"
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"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"
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"I think I'm a focus for international attention."
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"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."
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"We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves."
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"Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful."
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"The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention."
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