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I love fashion. I like dressing how I feel, and my music shows how I feel - they go hand in hand. My performance style is pretty much the same as my everyday style.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
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I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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All mankind love a lover.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
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Of all the parts that make up my somewhat quirky life, there are few things that raise a stranger's eyebrows faster than discovering I love country music.
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I was in the back of the book in the The Reporter doing music.
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We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.
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I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
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You don't necessarily want your physician to have all your information.
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I love fashion. I like dressing how I feel, and my music shows how I feel - they go hand in hand. My performance style is pretty much the same as my everyday style.
