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When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

About Activity Any Cleaned
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

Else Honor Marriage Responsibility
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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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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.

Nature Time Human Back
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Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

Babysitting He Love Needs
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Career Chosen Console Inconvenience
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I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country.

Believe Majority People Pains
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To think that some of our teachers flogged us back then in school for speaking our language. Calling it vernacular. Can you imagine? You speak your own language you get flogged. All those teachers should be ashamed of themselves. Oyibo people really messed up our brains.

Our teachers Flogged us School Language
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Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.

Service Play Better Harder
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Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

Snoring Interesting Respect Privacy
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If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

Learn Never Read Smart
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Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed.

Discovered Articulate Hard Quick
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I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

Accused Been Being Constantly
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When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.

Audience Call Feel First
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I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

About Describe How Inside
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

Become Lady Old Old Lady
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If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Back Good Hold Holding
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All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else.

Anything Anything Else Band Decided
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I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.

Ambition Around Been Desperate
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We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?

Come Course Fact Kind
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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Believe Change Dialogue Doing
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Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.

Never Make decision Wrong one Disclaim
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There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.

Every life Singing Angels Some place
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There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have.

Every one Listens Genuine True guide
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I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.

Not much Crier Soul-destroying Exposing
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Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.

Marriage Something Worked on Marital advice
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I'm with someone who makes me incredibly happy. I'm not one of those people who subscribes to the idea that marriage takes the romance out of things. I think it gets better, it deepens. I love being a wife. We have a blast.

Someone Happy Subscribes Marriage
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I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.

Find something Wonderful Dearth of Great material
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I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

Characters Complexity Duress Conflict
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Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

Man Live Impervious Sadness
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Sometimes when someone is asking you a question you can become Socratic, and ask them a question, and have them answer their own question for them.

Someone Asking you Question Socratic
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I don't like mansions. They depress me. In fact, I even feel sorry for a rich husband and wife living in a forty-room mansion. They're obviously searching for something they don't have, such as happiness or the respect of others.

Don't like Mansions Depress me Rich husband
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All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

All things People Life Own merits
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

So much Plastic surgery Recognize myself
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I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

Appreciate Positive experience Religion New family
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Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation.

Have something Stands In relation
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