"There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying."
"I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing."
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Source: Song: Beautiful World, Album: Going Somewhere, 2003
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