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'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one.

Country Diaries Dirt Excited
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My path is exactly where I want it to be. I'm doing my thing. I'm getting better with every album.

Album Better Doing Every
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I want my music to jump off the stage and out of the speakers. When we do 'Rain Is A Good Thing' paired back to back with 'Country Girl,' it just feels like the roof is fixin' to come off the place.

A Good Thing Back Come Country
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I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

Writing Simple Justice Trying
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I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

Able Almost Am Any
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Accident Am Beethoven Birth
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Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Acquainted Be The First Became Began
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I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his time.

Master Time Ironic Watch business
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I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Am Another Begun Engaged
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I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Artistic Be Happy Before Come
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

Armstrong Because Came Dad
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

Because Myself Piano Play
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

Banjo Between Birthday Father
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

Believe Better Even Explains
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

About Add Extra Friend
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It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

Because Before Beginning Born
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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

Cool Dad Everybody Guitar
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The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

About Done Favorite Favorite Thing
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

After Could Couple Folk
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My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

Age Date Girl My Own
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

About Could Incredibly Insensitive
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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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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

Call Dated English English People
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My painting does not come from the easel.
Come Does Painting Easel
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

When Am Aware Doing
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I don't have regard for money i don't celebrate wealth cause wealth is not yours it is only been entrusted into your hands by almighty GOD it is the way you use it that will determine your future what i celebrate is my achievements in life and how many people i have impacted their life

Have regards Money Celebrate wealth
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I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.

Always Anybody Anyone Days
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My advice to young people: listen to your parents a lot less.

My advice Young people Parents
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I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

Anything Awful AwfulLot Bothered
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I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.

Live Man Me Mum
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Happiness and well being markers for the state of a national economy have little to do with how it’s individuals feel.

Happiness Well being National economy
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I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.
Anybody Ever Fist Life
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You need to consider the future and think “what might my life look like if I were doing the right things incrementally everyday?”

Need Consider Future Life
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I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

Album Good GoodMusic Like
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Your life doesn’t have anything to do with my journey, my macro, my mission.

Your life My journey My mission
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I’ve only been around on earth for about 21 years, but one thing I’ve learned with all certainty, is that ALL challenges are temporary I’m building the psychological foundations of the rest of my life on this axiom

Earth Learned Challenges Temporary
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Enemy Friends Suppressed Truth
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Cathedral Churches Favorite Great
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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Am Boy Estate Girl
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Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

Elton EltonJohn Imperial Jealous
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My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on the wall in whatever flat we were in.

Always Autograph Back Bill
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The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can.

Brightly Burn Entertainment EntertainmentIndustry
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Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.

About AllDay Day Depression
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Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.

Fight Get Had Handed
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My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

Acting Always Artist Get
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Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.
Base Bette Davis Everything
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I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

About America Black Did
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I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

About Because Become Been
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I don't like hobbies. I read and travel and see my friends before they disown me.

Before Friends Hobbies Like
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I have not been aggressive in my pursuit of being a star. I've never had a plan. Maybe I need to be more aggressive, because it's quite tough!

Aggressive Because Been Being
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