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I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

Feel Individual Just Need
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It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

After Amazes Analyze Intelligent
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On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

Awaken Demons Ghosts Hand
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Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

Across Chords Few Place
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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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There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Along Always Been Chords
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I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Always Amazed Even People
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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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I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Apart Big Important Instance
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I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Anything Colour Expression Like
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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 realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

Amazing Anywhere Else Lived
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Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

Any Away Does Longer
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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'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

Acceptable Access Age Certain
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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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I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.

Because Best Doing Else
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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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Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Always Art Been Change
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

Agent Awe Behind Believe
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The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

Most Create Act Ever
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No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.

Different Direction Ever Found
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Aging Belief Between Biology
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Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.
Love Need Reason Heart
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Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go and it will be yours forever.

Forever Suffocate Breath Holding
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If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

Return Grow Get Fear
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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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Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

Plenty Stay Moment Life
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We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

Soul Realm Calm Still
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Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.
Field Entire Nervous Medication
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The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective – people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.

Opportunity Level Problem Highest
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If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.

Focus Stress Success Pursue
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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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I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn’t the truth; it’s what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

Afraid Truth Order Pain
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Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.

Emotion Sex Always Good
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Walk with those seeking truth… Run from those who think they’ve found it.
Truth Found Walk Seek
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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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You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

Positive Choice Rest Life
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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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Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind.
Nature Soothing Mind Tormented
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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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Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Money Success Freedom Create
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Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Courage Fear Forgive Peace
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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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There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Fear Happiness Resources Poor
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