Ricki-Lee Coulter Quotes
People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from some of the art and some of the craft of what we do. I'm at the helm of it, and I think that is what people don't see.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I love writing songs.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.
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We live because of the dreams.
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I blog because I have something to say.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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I'm running because we need change.
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I'm a lover of songs.
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I was taunted because I was different.
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I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.
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Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders...I think domesticity certainly doesn't make it easy to write, you know, because you've got a lot of distractions and I think a writer is always looking for distractions.
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We need to build EQ in our AI systems because, otherwise, they're not going to be as effective as they were designed to be.
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Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body melatonin - It is not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from some of the art and some of the craft of what we do. I'm at the helm of it, and I think that is what people don't see.
