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I was born into a very religious family with no TVs and a very strict Episcopal Christian religion. Music was my outlet and more of my therapy than anything, but yeah, it was the one thing in life that I've had, art and music.

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• I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

  

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• I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.

  

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• You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

  

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• Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

  

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• I was born into a very religious family with no TVs and a very strict Episcopal Christian religion. Music was my outlet and more of my therapy than anything, but yeah, it was the one thing in life that I've had, art and music.

  

  DJ Ashba Beautiful Creatures
  • Art
  • Christian
  • Religious