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I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

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I'm extremely happy, but I don't do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that's such a personal thing to me. I'd rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that.

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I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you.

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“Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.”

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Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

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The songs can be dark, but the adrenaline doesn't really change, regardless of what it is I'm singing, I still have the adrenaline, it's still a high.

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For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

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I really don't do karaoke because it becomes a vocal performance rather than fun, like, 'Let's just sing this song and be silly.' It's not fun for me.

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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.

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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

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I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

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With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.

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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
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Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

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Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.

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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

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Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

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Time doesn’t exist when you’re listening to your favourite song.

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I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

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The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

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I think my favorite song from another artist would have to be 'Superstition' by Stevie Wonder.
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I've been known to drop a spoken-word bit into a song from time to time. But not straight-up rap. I don't know that I have that gift.

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I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

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I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

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A good song is simply a good conversation

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is one who will smile, When everything goes dead wrong.
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I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

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The same way you can listen to a song, and be inspired and lifted. You can listen to another and be depressed/defiled…

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I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

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Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

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If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me.

Always Audience Get Got
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I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

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I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.

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I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

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I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
Always Loved Putting Songs
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I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

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I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, songs, video games. That's why I was afraid of marriage. Because it was like a lifelong game of 'Madden.'

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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

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Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

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You can be up there, talked about, appreciated all over the world, with people singing a lot of songs about you. But if you don't measure up and you are not really connected with your people... it will explode in your face, no question

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And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

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Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That's why me go write a song called 'Illegitimate Children.' It took me years to find out I was one.

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I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

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I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.

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