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Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.
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It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.
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It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.
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Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.
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Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.
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I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.
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You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again.
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I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.
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I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
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Women's issues have always been a part of my life.
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Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?
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The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
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I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.
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I love to make music and stay grounded.
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You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.
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I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.
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For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
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If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.
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HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
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Fashion is temporary; fashion is a race. What it's doing is giving you something that you say, "This is the outer wrapping of me." Style is something else. It's not quantifiable. Fashion is about selling. Fashion is about what's in. Style is independent of that; style is individual.
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More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but actually, they have their own interpretation of it, or they put a label on you.
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I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.
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One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.
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I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.