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" Quotes and Sayings About my songs

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

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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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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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It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

Warts All Songs Think
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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

Songs Really Direct Interviews
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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Careful Forget Get In The Past
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My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

Children Expect Like Old
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I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

Belt Direction Hollywood Just
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People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

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Even though I hate acting, I love doing videos for my songs.
Even Though Hate Acting
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My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

My Songs Have Always
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I'm convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music. My songs are not exactly unsexy.

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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

Job Song World Middle East
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Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing.

After Carefully Craft Enough
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If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Drama Not Negativity My
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I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

Actually Business Dreams Feel
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I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

Compulsion Decline Discuss Else
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Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

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I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.

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I write my songs because I've lived them.

Because I Write Lived Songs
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I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age.

Age Behind Best Better
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Although my songs reflect many issues which are relevant in my society. I believe that human relations are the site where all issue emerge.

My song Relevant Society Human relations
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During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

Listening Sabbatical Songs Spent
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If you have listened to some of my songs, you would notice that they have stories. I use my songs to tell stories.

Listened Songs Have stories Tell
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When I started music, I did not know my songs would become evergreen.

Started music Songs Evergreen
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I believe that my songs have to do with peace and happiness.

Believe Songs Peace Happiness
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

About Anything Aspects Avoid
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If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.

Hearing My songs Human being Friend
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My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I’ve been going through a personal nightmare

Songs Diaries Time Personal
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