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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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The very fact that the planet is probably unsustainable with all that we've done to it and are doing to it, it's an appalling piece of evidence. It shows our complacency, our lack of passion or inclination to be authentic and really understand our true values. It's consistently depressing, but nevertheless, we carry on.
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I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
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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 think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.
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I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.
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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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The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.
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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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Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.
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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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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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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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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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I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.
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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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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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The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
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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 love to make music and stay grounded.
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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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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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HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.