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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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I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
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The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.
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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.
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I love to make music and stay grounded.
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We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found.
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I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.
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When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.
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I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.
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When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.
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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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I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
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Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
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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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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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HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
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I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.
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There must be an angel, Playing with my heart. And when I think that I'm alone, It seems there's more of us at home...
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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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I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
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Success breeds the excitement to continue going.
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You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.
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I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.