"The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird."
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"I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally."
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"I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip."
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"How far you go depends on what you want for yourself, how much you're willing to leave on the floor, and how much you wanna face the fears you have inside of you. It's everything we're all dealing with every day."
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"Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail."
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"Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back."
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"What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving."
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"I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results."
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"I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it."
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"I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new."
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"Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones."
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"We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring."
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"I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything."
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"I believe AIDS is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people."
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"I love being a mom. And I think what I love the most is the way it makes me think about what's important and what's not important. What to fight for and what to just be cool with. What it is that I'm teaching through example and what it is that I was taught that I don't want to teach."
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"I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is."
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"He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in."
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"When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six."
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"Not having all the information can make me feel vulnerable."
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"Soul music is timeless."
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