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Whenever I make music, I just make it depending on however I feel at that moment and what I'm getting inspiration from, so it depends - whatever, it's just my mood.

Depending Depends Feel Getting
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I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

Better Like Myself Regularly
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If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

Got Honey Money Out
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Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Country Even Feeling Listen
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When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

Best Driving Highway I Write
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When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.

Hear Know Me Regardless
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The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

About Church First First Time
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A radical is he who has no sense…fights without reason…I have a reason. I am authentic. Yes, that’s what I am.

Radical Sense Reason Fights
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I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

Anybody Between Borders Broke
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I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.

Born Central Divorced Grandparents
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When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.

Affected Cool Going Happening
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When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too.

Advice Any Breathing Exercise
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Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'

Anybody Be Yourself Change Going
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Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner

Motivated Goals Charge Unstoppable
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When you fight corruption, it fights back.

You Fight Corruption Back
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When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas.

About Band Bars Distance
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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Nearer Oftentimes Soar Stoop
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The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

Artists Back Just Love
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My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Always Close Come Expect
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Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Album Always Bought Experience
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Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Actually Artists Controversy Deal
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Success is when God is happy with you, when the closest people around you are happy and when your soul is at peace with you.

Success God Happy People
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There are times we spent money when we shouldn't, the choices we make define the results we get.

Spend Define Result Choice
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It is our responsibility to continue to add value whenever we find ourselves in a privileged position.

Position Value Continue Find
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The grass is greener when you water the ground. that's what I found when I took the the ride.

Grass Greener Water Ground
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The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

Spiritual Life Beyond Existence
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Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go.

Blessing Ministers Weakness Serve
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Advice Wounds Rather Tender
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When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Curious Find Interesting Interesting Things
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When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

Cling Defend Freely Shared
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Adversity Best Had Happens
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Believe Implicitly Thing Way
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.

Pray God Conversation Kick
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When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

Recognize Pray Festive Moments
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Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

Community Wounded People Broken
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The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

Labors Generations Trust When
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Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

Solitude Grows Community Intimacy
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Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

Holds Surprise Hearts Friends
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field – it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

Create Identity Dominate Strong
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Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.

Perhaps Nothing Moments Spiritual
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Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

Look People Surround Positive
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I love riding, even if it’s just my Vespa. You just zip and do your thing. I find there’s a different awareness when I ride; it connects me to my senses and to God.

Ride Aware Connect Senses
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Don’t you want to know what’s real and what’s not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it’s almost like, what’s real and what’s not?

Remember War Scared Real
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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Moving Success Itself Together
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There are times you can’t really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

Sweet Mountain Valley Punch
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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It’s tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

Enjoy Mood Work Time
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Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Means Right When Looking
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Frightful Things Eyes Goal
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I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the ’80s. When it’s that close to you, you can’t really deny it, and you can’t run from it.

Relatives Friends Birthday Deny
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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Directly Providing Service Comes
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