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"I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine."
"I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that.""
"Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins."
"You're just a little too hip for the room. It's not good to be too hip because two hips make an ass."
"I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine."
"With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do."
"You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you."
"The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin."
"I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me."
"I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything."
"I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay."
"My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me."
"the one universal form of art is music."
"i won't be happy until i'm famous like God"
"... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music."
"Music is the perfect type of art."
"Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies."
"My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy."
"It's gotta be fun, if it's not fun it's not worth doing. Music is about having a good time feeling your soul, whether it makes you laugh or it makes you cry, just so long as you feel as much as you can. That's the mission of Pono."