Breakfast Club Quotes
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.
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There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
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Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
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I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.
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Figure out who you are.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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You never know what the future brings.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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I'm still true to my Southern roots.