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"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."
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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."

"I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great."

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

"You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing."

"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."

"Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver."

"One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options."

"Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention."
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"I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice."


"I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good."


"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."


"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."


"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."


"You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense."
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