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In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

About Around Believe Everything
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Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.
Heart Anchor Beat Song
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

Branches Cease Ear Enthusiasm
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Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.

Creation Earthquakes Etc Every
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Allowing Another Beautiful Building
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You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

You Know Songs Often
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You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a really amazing dance song.

You Can Be Very
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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.

Convinced There Are Lot
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I like to sing love songs.
Sing Love Song
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

Good Great Make Put
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I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

Always Combination Done Friends
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I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

Best Know Player Singer
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Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.

About Know Like Made
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'Victory' is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It's just about reaching a place in myself.

Victory Question Songs Reaching
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

Belong Longer Mine Music
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I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Felt Forced Me Mother
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.

Classical music Survive Song Voice
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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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Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all

Am Artist Being Both
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Above Cheer Food Gold
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

Actual Any Before Beginning
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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
End Journey Like Song
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I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.

Back Certain Just Keep
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Those who wish to sing will always find a song.

Wish Song Sing Always
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I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

Essence I Think Lose Meaning
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When I hear the songs 'Dangerous' or 'End of My World', I go, 'Wow, I didn't even know I could go that low!' And when I played them for my family, they said, 'That doesn't even sound like you.'

Could Dangerous End Even
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I've been trying to write you a song for years but I'm not sure what to say.

Song Write Years
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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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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point

Back Because Find Get
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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.

About Almost Any Back
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The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

Any ISee Melody Only
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My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

Fight Figure Job Lyric
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I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

Songs Finish Realize Good
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When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

Record Song Feel Somebody
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My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Artist Ancing Dream Favorite
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

Acting Angry Concert Drum
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

Album Every Get I Can
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The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

Album Arm Band Culture
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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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We make songs like a factory and put them out.

We Make Song Like
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.

As Artist We're Always
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

Should Take Fifteen Minutes
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Pain me say no be me write Brymo's Ozymandias. Be like I dey sleep when the angel dey look for who to give the song to.

Pain Sleep Angel Give
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The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

About Artists Beginning Better
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In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.

Album Amplified Breathe Came
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Alone Even However Labors
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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 only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.

Only Record Relate Some
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I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

Love Songs Money Success
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book

Makes Improvisation Human Existence
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