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		The modelling was fun but I don't see it the same as music, because with modelling, I was just kind of lucky, I just fell into it. I got discovered at a train station when I'd just turned 15, I was working full-time by 16, moved overseas and then just kept at it and made it a life. Whereas with my music, I've really struggled through and worked hard, learnt how to write and I've kept developing that.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Henry Saint Clair Fredericks 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Napoleon Bonaparte 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Chiang Kai-shek 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		He's got more or less a defect there that sometimes gives him problems. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		It all depends what you mean by. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				C. E. M. Joad 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		The modelling was fun but I don't see it the same as music, because with modelling, I was just kind of lucky, I just fell into it. I got discovered at a train station when I'd just turned 15, I was working full-time by 16, moved overseas and then just kept at it and made it a life. Whereas with my music, I've really struggled through and worked hard, learnt how to write and I've kept developing that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Erica Packer