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Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

About Came Career Down
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If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess.

Be Nice Being Better Day
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My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.

Dad Feel Get Just
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I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

Ability Brain Class Cool
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I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

Always Another Apologize Band
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My path is exactly where I want it to be. I'm doing my thing. I'm getting better with every album.

Album Better Doing Every
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I want my music to jump off the stage and out of the speakers. When we do 'Rain Is A Good Thing' paired back to back with 'Country Girl,' it just feels like the roof is fixin' to come off the place.

A Good Thing Back Come Country
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In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Different Universe Asking Bigger
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What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
What They Thing Answer
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Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Come Celebrate That Something
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Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Admit Errors Intolerable More
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven Earth Else God
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Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Better Fellow Give Greater
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Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As a result, I tend to be pretty conservative.

Trends Forever Around Standstill
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I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Am Another Begun Engaged
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You can’t do everything yourself, you have to employ competent people. It is a trick to recognize good people.

Everything yourself Employ competent People
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You have to interact with people. You can’t sit behind a computer and think you can learn something about life. Interact with people, so that you can get a feeling for the right people.

Interact People Computer Learn
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Approach every challenge as an opportunity because a negative person has never really created anything.

Approach Challenge Opportunity Negative person
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I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

Anything Burned Dancer Died
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

Believe Better Even Explains
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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

Cool Dad Everybody Guitar
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

Because Business Every Every Time
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

Break Does Doing Each
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The race most people have been tricked to run will always be void of fulfillment. We are part of nature and nothing in nature lives for itself. Rivers don’t drink their own water, Trees don’t eat their own fruit & the sun doesn’t shine for itself. Living for each other is a rule.

The race Void Tricked Rivers
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The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

About Done Favorite Favorite Thing
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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Generation Make Much New
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

Africa Also As Far As Birthday
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

About Could Incredibly Insensitive
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

About Anything Aspects Avoid
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Stay focused on the present and don’t worry about past or future. Do not let negative things from the past effect your present-day happiness. Whatever occurred in the past cannot be altered and you should let it go and move on.

Stay focused Worry Future Negative things
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Nothing is truly impossible, have courage and take a risk in your yourself.

Truly impossible Courage Risk
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Change Changes Does Essence
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I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off.

Couple Cut Find Got
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The advantage of not being able to do something, is that it gives you something to do!

The advantage Do something Gives
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I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

Anything Awful AwfulLot Bothered
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Your capacity for annoyance is not an argument It’s not something people should respect.

Your capacity Annoyance People Respect
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You need to consider the future and think “what might my life look like if I were doing the right things incrementally everyday?”

Need Consider Future Life
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You will definitely learn something. Even if it is how to be strong alone.

Definitely Learn Strong Alone
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You SHOULD be afraid of taking risks and pursuing something that’s meaningful. But you SHOULD BE MORE afraid of staying where you are if it’s making you miserable.

You should Afraid Risks Meaningful
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When things are not working out as well for me, I look inwards first, before blaming the world.

When things Working out Well Inwards first
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Your life doesn’t have anything to do with my journey, my macro, my mission.

Your life My journey My mission
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This is an idea that I believe to be very true. Find and build your community, surrender yourself to (positive) ideals that transcend you, do less of the things that you shouldn’t be doing.

Idea I believe Very true Build
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I’ve only been around on earth for about 21 years, but one thing I’ve learned with all certainty, is that ALL challenges are temporary I’m building the psychological foundations of the rest of my life on this axiom

Earth Learned Challenges Temporary
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Never stop dreaming big. Never stop challenging the status quo. You have what it takes to do great things. Discipline yourself and develop a new African mindset. A mindset that doesn't feel inferior and is never afraid to confront, tackle and overcome challenges.

Dreaming Never stop Great things Discipline
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Engage yourself in things that will profit you. Read books that will empower you. Watch and listen to materials that will inspire you and not things that will break your confidence.

Profit you Yourself Read book Inspire you
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Great and beautiful things take time! True success doesn't happen overnight.
Great Beautiful things Take time True success
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Everyone lives by selling something.

Everyone Lives Selling Something
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Business Calls Devotion His
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Another Endless Happily Leading
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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Full Happy Kings Number
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