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"I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
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"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
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"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
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"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to "suck it up" because so many other profound issues are at stake."
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"You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal."
Life
"I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out."
Mission
"There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room."
Character
"I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing."
Being
"The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one."
Departure
"Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time."
Time
"Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense."
Character
"You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart."
Experience
"It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown."
Years
"That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change."
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