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"What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you."
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"If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing."
"The world's most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife."
"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
"We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them."
"I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless."
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"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."
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"I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand."
"I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time."
"Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing."
"I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform."
"The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear."
"Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one."
"Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business."
"I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is."
"What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another."
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