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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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Life is like an analogy.
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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
