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I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
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If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.
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I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.
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I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.
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I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?
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Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them.
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People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
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It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.
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You're never promised your next breath.
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It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.
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They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.
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I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.
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I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.
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People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there's a lot of time when you're traveling - time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you.
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I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
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The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.
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If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.
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If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.
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My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
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I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.
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I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.
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A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.
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That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.
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The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.