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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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.

Character Different Extremely Feels
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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.

Absolutely Could Going Hate
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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.

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

Essential Poet Have Toast
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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.

Biased First Generate Get
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I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

Catalog Just Leave Massive
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Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

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

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

About Beauty Did Famous
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

Always Doing Enjoyed Songs
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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.

Compulsion Decline Discuss Else
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Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

Books Neither Planet Save
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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.

Batch Deadly Different DifferentKinds
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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.

Audition Got Group Knew
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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 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.'

Afraid Because Game Games
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