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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive.

Worse Call Crazy Dismissive
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The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself especially when everybody is watching

True Hard Thing Yourself
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People don’t know what it’s like standing up there on stage when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

People Wall Stand Stage
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I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.

Cool Long Around Love
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I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.

Always Become Relationship Leave
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

Admire Bright Intelligent Life
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I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

Any Art Between Boundaries
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
Really Some Songs Strangely
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But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

Album Allowed Got Guy
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Arts Back Felt Just
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I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

About Articulate Does Explaining
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I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

Approach Artist Back Being
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The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Arriving Course Departing Journey
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I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

Denial Image Korean Many
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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Absence Absolute Challenging Confront
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I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

Albums Been Done Fact
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Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

Advantage Again Become Better
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

Any Artifice Artist Believe
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I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

Able About Always Anything
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There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

Being Come Composer Effort
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All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

About Art Does Focused
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I’ve worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it’s awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

Life Subject Awareness Body
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The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

Worse Curse Conformity Need
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In a person’s career, well, if you’re process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you’re more likely to be a success. I often say ‘pursue excellence, ignore success.’ Success is a by-product of excellence.

Success Excellence Process Ignore
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Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Might Destiny Life Think
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Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

Melody Nerves Triggers Body
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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Freedom Shadow Death Mountaintop
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In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.
Laugh Life Person Real
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I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Harmony Opportunity Achieve Society
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Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you're working with; otherwise, you're not gonna come out with something that's really you.

Trust Working Writing Come
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I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.

Picture Powerless Small Smile
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“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

Control Attitude Toward Happens
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I've always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of - I just sung a lot.

Always Been Decided Gonna
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I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Actually Again Always Bored
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I don't really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It's all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Everything Good Hiding Inside
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“All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

Respect Successful People Dreamers
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I listen to music all day every day. I can't not listen to music. It's kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it's what I love, and it's all I care about, so I'm good with it.

Care Every Good Much
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“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”

Parent Children Greatest Blessings
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“Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.”

Money Becoming Capabilities Want
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We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Build Too Many Walls
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A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Allowed Anyone Child Disrespectful
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“It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”

From Coming Matters Going
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

Uncertainty Flee Future
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Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

Perfect Parachutes Nobody Mean
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Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

Life Person Positive Everybody
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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Control Change Allow Direction
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“Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.”

Men Women Almost Performing
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“Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.”

Strength Handle Moment Grow
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“You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.”

Bigger Smaller Making Challenges
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“Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.”

Alternative Overlook Practice Talents
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