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There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.
About Crime Life NoPoint
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The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!

About Bars Car Few
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

About Care Good Good Life
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If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow

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You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

Learn more Yourself Child
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I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.

More cautious My choices Reflects
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I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

Have Forward planning Future
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

My process Thinking about Stories Time
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…we need to think collectively about the responsibility of what we do to make sure there is a more equitable world, that everyone is included and that we really think about our footprint in our home.

Think Responsibility Make sure
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Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

About Learning Like Love
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I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

About Album Another Going
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I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.

About Anything Business Long
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Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

About Career Doing Going
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Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

About Beads Closed Complicated
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For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

About Anything Felt Kind
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I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.'

About Casting Creative Different
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The striking thing about love and will in our day is that, whereas in the past they were always held up to us as the answer to life's predicaments, they have now themselves become the problem.

About Always Answer Become
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But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

About Also Audience Harder
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When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

100Years About Expose Film
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How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

About Changed Devices Experience
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Autobiography Boring Book Life
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Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what's left is always the food story.

About Always Bad Bunch
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We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.

About African American European
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I don't have memories of Ethiopia as a child. I didn't learn about Ethiopian culture until after I moved to New York and started meeting people from the Ethiopian community.

About After Child Community
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As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.

About Adopted Almost Find
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We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

About Action Anxiety Anxious
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I think the kitchen is the new garage. And I think for a guy that wants to go out and be an evolved person, he should know about his local favorite restaurant. He should know how to cook something.

About Cook Evolved Favorite
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Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.

About Being Chef Nothing
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

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It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

About Always Because Good Knows
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The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

About Being Celebrity Funny
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I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

About Am Because Enjoy
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Did you know that what you say about yourself has greater impact on you than anything anybody else says about you?

About Impact Greater Else
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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

About Age Eat Honestly
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I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

About Basically Cause Emotion
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Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

About Bills Cash Check
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A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

About Form Know Philosophical
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I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.

About Always Awards Back
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A lot of people don't have near the amount of success as I've been blessed to have, and it's all about working hard and hoping that continues.

About Amount Been Blessed
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I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of their career. I understand that somewhere there's a peak and a crest for me, and I'm going to enjoy all levels. I'm going to enjoy this ride that I'm on, and when it slows down, that's when it will be time for another phase of my life.

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When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.

About Best Came Eyes
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Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

About Came Career Down
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Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

About Down Me Notes
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It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good factor that drives the purchases more and more than mere economic wealth.

Just Disposable income People Feel good
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You have to interact with people. You can’t sit behind a computer and think you can learn something about life. Interact with people, so that you can get a feeling for the right people.

Interact People Computer Learn
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

About Eight Playing Started
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

About Also Calling Central
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

About Add Extra Friend
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Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

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