"Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day."
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"All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less."
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"To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations."
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"Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product."
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"People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music."
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"Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will."
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"Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend."
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"O, it's enough to be on your way. It's enough just to cover ground. It's enough to be moving on. Home: better build it behind your eyes. Carry it in your heart, Safe among your own."
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"I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music."
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"Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?"
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"But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right."
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"I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be."
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"A concert is always like a feast day to me."
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"I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks."
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"I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character."
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"Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight."
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"Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true."
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"I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the left side, I put in alternate things...and things that might be alternates or improvements. I'll turn the page and do it again. I'll turn the page and do it again, or incorporate the improvements. Eventually, I end up with some material, and often it needs to be ordered."
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"I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force."
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"Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion."
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