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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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Where I'm at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that's the way it's going to be. I'm looking at the big picture.
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God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.
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If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.
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I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.
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For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.
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My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
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The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision. It's like a release. I'm glad it's come back into my life.
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There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
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God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.
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A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.
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I don't play the tuba.
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I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.
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God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.
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When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.
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Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
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Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
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We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
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The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
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You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
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A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
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Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.
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The image is an image.
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I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.