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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.
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Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.
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I know you don't wanna hear my opinion, There come many paths and you must choose one. And if you don't change then the rain soon come. See, you might win some, but you just lost one.
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Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
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Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
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It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.
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I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.
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Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
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I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
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I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.
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I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.
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Now I may have faith, to make mountains fall. But if I lack love, then I am nothin' at all.
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I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.
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We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
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You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
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Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
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We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.
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We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.
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The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.
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I believe God will make a way.
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I play my enemies like a game of chess
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I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old.
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When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.
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