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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.

Actor Actress Business Camera
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Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.

Adapt Broken First First Time
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Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

Daughter Had Made Music
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I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down.

About Compare Could Damn
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When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.

About Aside Been Did
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Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

About Because Eight Helps
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I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like.

About Across Always Artistic
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I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

Any Career Classical College
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But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.

Always Audience Camera Caught
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Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

Actually Beautiful Because Cello
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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Going Mend Month Next
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Agreeable Deal Great Great Deal
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Day Fine Fine Day Look
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Always Cannot Laughing Man
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You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

Barking Cost Economist Employing
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Best Ever Happiness Heard
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.

Continent Bail Further Side
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More of the same will just produce more of the same: less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

Fewer Growth Jobs Less
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Certainly Deserve Fortune Large
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Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

Actually Binding Bondage Clothes
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Afraid Always Am Does
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It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

Else Honor Marriage Responsibility
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Argument Being Dreadful Favor
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I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

Complicated Humans Happy Loyal
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Comfort Home Like Nothing
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I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

Ability Actor Feel Granted
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Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

Anxiety Creativity Need Out
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Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

Close Deal Fame Fear
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Before Happens She Sometimes
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