"You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are."
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"I don't have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don't have huge family, but the family I have is a great one."
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"Sometimes I feel like I don't belong anywhere, & it's gonna take so long for me to get to somewhere, Sometimes I feel so heavy hearted, but I can't explain cuz I'm so guarded. But that's a lonely road to travel, and a heavy load to bear. And it's a long, long way to heaven but I gotta get there Can you send an angel? Can you send me an angel...to guide me."
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"Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is."
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"I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments I need guidance."
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"Right now the way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that's only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are."
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"I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way."
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"The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so."
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"When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside."
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"How you look is your statement, because it's a claiming of yourself."
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"I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something."
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"I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too."
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"I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion."
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"I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life."
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"I'm very happy with my body."
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"From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with."
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"I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show."
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"Simplicity makes me happy."
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"I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand."
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"Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience."
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