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Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs.

Bird Sing Have They
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If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

Get One Way Find
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To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

About Because Better Bigger
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

Home Instrument Make Only
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I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Albums Artwork Being Enjoy
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
Really Some Songs Strangely
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Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

Frankly Input Interesting Interpretations
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I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Anything Colour Expression Like
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I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.

Because Best Doing Else
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Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

Ear Life Loved Much
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“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream.”

Problem Determination Carry Dream
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Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Country Even Feeling Listen
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Great songs stand out wherever they're from.
Great Great Songs Out Songs
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Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything.

Ability About Everything Good
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Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Hopeless Romantic Love Time
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

Heartbreak Definitely Deeper Sensibility
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I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

Really Need Stand Room
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It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

Warts All Songs Think
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I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

Doubt Singing Forever Because
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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

Songs Really Direct Interviews
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I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

Don't Easy Songs Cuss
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I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

War Song Stopped Music
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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing.

Don't Write Songs About
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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

If Were Writer Singer
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In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

Hate Write Tragic Person
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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Song Music Love Anything
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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Careful Forget Get In The Past
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A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

Bad Come Day Feel
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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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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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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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For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

About Comfortable Life Personal
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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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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 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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