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I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

Bus Coming Hand Know
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If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.

About Feel Feel Good Gig
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If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

Agree Music Self Absorbed Sentimental
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If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

Addict Becomes Boring Controls
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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

Before Coming Delightful Ever
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It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

Because Expect Failure Foolish
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Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

Am Important Important Thing Just
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People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

Addiction Avoid Before Controls
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

Breaking Breaking Up Marriage Responsible
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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

Front Helps Internal Just
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That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

Artist Attention Kind Motivation
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There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

Come Defend Done Get
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When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

About Activity Any Cleaned
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I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

Bare Bare Feet Feet Find
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Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

Began Control Get Out
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Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

After How Know Like
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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

Because Find Get Heavy
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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

First Go Here Lyric
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When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

Actually Almost Come May
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I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

Around I Think Know Lot
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Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

Any Direct Me Mysterious
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Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

Cases Commonly Experience Fire
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I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

Against Amazingly Blessings How
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Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

Anything Basically Brazil Catch
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I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

Audience Been Being Bother
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I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

Ability Europe Glad Love
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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
Always Concert Day Feast
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Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

Again Back Down Emotions
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I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

Able Afford Being Figure
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Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

Experience Least Me Performing
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In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Blackness Everyday Everyday Life Life
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She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.

About Because Dreams Go
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You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.

Actor Anything Black Control
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When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

Born Destination Destiny Different
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I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

Account AIDS Angry Celebrity
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The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

About Acting Also Dark
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I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Actor All My Life Athlete Been
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We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

Anything Back Cannot Does
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Every single thing in my life is built around race.
Around Built Every Every Single Thing
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Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

About Because Every Holocaust
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Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.

About Anything Be A Man Big
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I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

About Great Just Never
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I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Age Be A Man Had Handling
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My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

Bee Black Did Experience
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To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.

About Built Celebrity Character
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I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

Anything Anything Else Else Funny
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If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.

Almost Always Back Because
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I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

Act Am Because Everything
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So there is not a lot about me that you don't know other than that I play table tennis. I'm great, I'm great at table tennis! You will look at me and go, 'How does that dude know how to play that well?'

About Does Dude Go
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I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.
God Grandmother Like Personal
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