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My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

Me Mom Nice Saint
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T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.

Brother Call Career Close
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I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'

Crazy Favourite I Love Like
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

American American Music Audience General
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

About Been Came Crazy
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

Crazy Kind Like Mom
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I love purple because my name is Amethyst.

Because I Love Love Name
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Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

Been Blows Comfort Day
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

Also Bittersweet Child Dad
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We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Book Break Distinct Down
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

Audience Easy Exists Forget
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I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

Another Another Way Because Creative
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I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

Bad Care Reason Sound
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

Air Apps Download Everything
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“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”

Give Advice Seldom Follow
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“I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”

Strange Weird Crazy Reality
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I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

Actor Been Enjoy Getting
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I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

Am Dependent Dime Food
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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

Also Am Believe Circumstances
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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Accompany Because Europeans Heavy
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Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Throughout My Career Fed
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Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

Trust Hard Come That's
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It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

Be Stupid For Me
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People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.

Am Friends Going Hanging
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There are many females in my life I couldn't function on a daily basis without who I've purposely put there that work with me.

Basis Daily Daily Basis Females
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

All Women Labels Management Management Team
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

Christ Death Desire Died
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

Beasts Bones Christ Come
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I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I Need Drama My
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

Am Beasts Churches Die
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I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Like Six Different Schools
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My only scheme was to be a rapper.

My Only Scheme Was
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My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

My Thing This Sick
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When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind.

Little Kid When Don't
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I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

Baseball Bump Fever Goose
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I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'

Got Interesting Oh Realized
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

About Edit Everything Influenced
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I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

Being Fact Go Great
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I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.

Great Great Thing Interested Interview
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I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

Bubble Little Live My Own
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

I Tried Job Jobs Long
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My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

My Father Never Knew
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.

Both Breakfast Day Desk
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Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

Anybody With Sense Humour
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I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Think My Album Opened
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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 was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.

Did Get Good Slow
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My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.

Baltimore Boy DJ Era
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Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

Honestly Love Be Remembered
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Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing well.

Honestly Love Be Remembered
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