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Quotes by Musician

"For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me."

"That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person."
Word,

"The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care."

"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."

"Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand."

"You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist."

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."

"A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that."

"I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort."

"When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity."

"I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday."

"My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt."

"I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands."

"I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS."

"I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have."

"It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz."

"The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's."

"I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn."

"I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style."

"In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation."

"The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud."
Sun,

"We were great mates. We didn't really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other."

"Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday."

"Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words."

"But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way."
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