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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

Also Always Artist Bunch
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'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.
Big Couple Exploring Founded
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For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.

Basically Cheese Date Dinner
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I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

Awards Before Blessed Children
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Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.

Attention Feet Ground Grow
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Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

Am Feel Growing GrowingUp
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I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.

Club Clubs Go Know
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Armed Corrupted Destroyed Goodness
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Being in a band is very much like a startup. You start in a garage. You hope to get interest from investors, like a major record label.

Band Being Garage Get
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As every parent knows, not every moment is going to be super exciting.

Every Exciting Going Knows
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It was humbling to see my brothers blowing up in music while I wasn't in the public eye, but it was also gratifying, because I'm doing what I love, and the self-esteem you get from that is so much better.

Also Because Better Blowing
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I'm losing friendships over forgetting to get back to people. But you can't keep up with everything. I've got a 13-year-old, a nine-year-old and a baby.

Baby Back Everything Forgetting
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I would love to have more kids. Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.

Best BestPart Day Family
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I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do not worry about them growing up - because they have great values and a great sense of self.

About Absolutely Because Great
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…You’re bound to meet a lot of stumbling blocks, and you’re bound to fail at certain things, but the number of times you fail is not the issue, it is the number of times you pick yourself up, dust yourself and continue your journey.

Meet Stumbling blocks Fail Times
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My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We're very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We're on the same page that way.

America Beautiful Because Both
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It was funny because right before the whole band broke up, like, we were seven months' pregnant, so my life was going to transition anyway, whether the band was continuing or not.

Anyway Band Because Before
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We're a young, married couple, and we go through all the ups and downs that every couple goes through; we're no different.

Couple Different Downs Every
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My brothers and I have basically grown up on screen, and we feel so blessed and lucky because it's been amazing.

Amazing Basically Because Been
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We're not one of those groups who have one song on the radio and, boom, they're an instant success. We worked hard from day one and didn't get a lot of respect, possibly because of the way we were marketed.

Because Boom Day Day One
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For my 21st birthday, my now-wife, at the time girlfriend, flew across the country and showed up at my house.

Across Birthday Country Flew
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The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

About Anything Done Fact
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Buried Childhood Darkest Dug
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But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

Demos Finished FinishedProduct Going
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And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.

After Band Crew Diego
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Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

Being Everybody Growing GrowingUp
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Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

Marriage Theory Man discovers Taste
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I use all my skills that I can muster up, but the fun thing is that I find some untapped skills every once in a while. I get that from my daddy.

Daddy Every Find Fun
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I exercise at least five times a week with stretching, Pilates, push-ups, planks, sit- ups, squats and light weights.

Exercise Five Least Light
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I treat myself pretty good. I take lots of vacations, I eat well, I take supplements, I do mercury detox, I get plenty of sleep, I drink plenty of water and I stay away from drama and stress.

Away Detox Drama Drink
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People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.

Blind Cutting Doing Fire
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I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

Against Air Air Force Always
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I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble.

Eight Everything Experiences Good
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I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.

Anyway Good Had Heart
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I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

Acting Anybody Brando Christ
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I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.

Am Big Big Family Each
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By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.
Expectations Free Having Live
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I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.

Arriving Cash Exciting Grew
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Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

Am Artist Country Genre
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

About Different Many Much
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.

Both Cast Dancing Doing
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I want people to understand that there is a group of Christians out there who want to be more open and understanding and tolerant and loving of all kinds of people, even the people that don't believe in God at all.

Believe Christians Even God
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We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

About Connect Each Housewives
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

Dance Deaf Even Kind
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.

Because Books Fun Grew
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I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.

Going Know Laugh Lock
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My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

About All Day Being Brain
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

Base Believe Change Economic
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

Cause Culture Job Keep
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

Clown Fine Know Like
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