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"I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
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"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."
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"I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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"I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."
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"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."
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"There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist."
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"It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing."
Luxury
"I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else."
Music
"If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness."
Love
"I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that."
Day
"I don't think about what other people want from me."
People
"I play piano every day."
Day
"'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song."
Time
"People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something."
People
"I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from."
Sadness
"I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at."
Life
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