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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
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You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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You are just your intelligence.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
