Me Quotes
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
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Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
