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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Argument Describe Like Love
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Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

Anything Attention Cannot Career
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

Album Aspect Every Liked
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I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

Against Christ Glorify Innovation
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No pastor has the church’s blessing to impose Yoruba songs as part of the church service in other parts of the country.

Impose Service Country Parts
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When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

Certain Emotion Intent Myself
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

Rhythm Songwriter Speech Always
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I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

Always Different Kind Little
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I've done songs with legends like De La Soul with Pete Rock. I've done songs with B.O.B. I've done songs with Big Kit.

Big Done Kit La
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My mother was a - she worked at a halfway house. And one of the former inmates slid me a mix-tape full of different hip-hop songs. And so that was my first kind of experience with rap music.

Different Experience First Former
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I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
Afraid Feelings Songs Write
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I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
Alcohol Filter I Wish Instead
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Diary Feel I Write Like
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
30Minutes Being End Finished
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Back Down Excited Get
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For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

About Comfortable Life Personal
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Day Death Divide For The Day
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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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When I was trying to make songs to go to America, to go to Japan, they'd never work.
America Go Japan Make
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I've been trying to do this music stuff and work it out for so long... I was like, 'Let's do it for ourselves.' All these songs, we've travelled the world - no record label, nothing. We just did this for us, but the love is very appreciated.

Appreciated Been Did Just
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Songwriting has really allowed me to enjoy life and look at it from an objective place.

Allowed Enjoy Enjoy Life Life
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I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.'

Because I Can Lennon McCartney
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I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun,' and some of them aren't, you know.

Catchy Here However Just
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Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics, and I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.

All-Around Although Around Funny
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When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

Big Big Thing Child Control
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I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

About Dialogue Going Just
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I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Am Empowering Hear Know
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I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

Actress Add Brand Call
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I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

Charts Compete I Can Just
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Case Cases Considered Few
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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Almost Always Bit Felt
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I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Good I Think Love Love Songs
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Songs are more powerful than books.

Books More Powerful Songs
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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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I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

Big Hoax Life My Life
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Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'

Captures Explanation Feminism Free
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I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

Again Another Another Time Back
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These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

Days There Many People
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I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.

Cole Porter Enough First Five
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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.

Because Expect Just Just Because
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When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.

When Picking Songs For
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I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about.

The Perfect Amount Guarded
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I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that they liked it.

Got Song One Direction
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Even though I hate acting, I love doing videos for my songs.
Even Though Hate Acting
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I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

Sing Song That Have
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It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

Album Easy Full Go
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I can't make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I'm gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo - you can never get away from it.

Away Demographic Get Gonna
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I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Answer Answers Believe Claimed
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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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One of my most popular songs, 'Satellites,' I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.

Beat Most Paid Popular
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