"Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way."
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"For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional."
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"It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care."
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"One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that."
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"If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process."
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"At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit."
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"I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels."
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"I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable."
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"I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf. Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I've gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, 'Why not? Now's the time.'"
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"If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists."
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"People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves."
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"I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways."
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"I'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him."
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"It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow."
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"You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame"
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"I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become."
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"Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing."
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"Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind."
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"It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it."
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"Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone."
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