“There are different varieties and forms of capitalism. There are priorities within the capitalist society so that you can have countervailing forces come in and empower your working people and your poor people. There are capitalist societies that do not have poverty. America needs to understand that.”
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“Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.”
“I want to avoid people, because there’s only one thing worse than being homeless, and that’s people who are not, knowing that you are.”
“People that talk about living in the real world don't even enjoy living in the real world.”
“There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them names which make the problems sound like they’re taking place in a different world: they make people not care about other people dying of starvation by calling the place the dying live “the third world.”
“There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry.”
“You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.”
“Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.”
“The only people that deserve to be called Americans are Native Americans, otherwise, I'm a Latino American, you know.... Anybody else... well where did you come from?”
“I think that as people and as humans, our social pattern is to always run away from problems... as humans in general.”
“There's a subtleness to camera work. You can really create intimate moments on camera and sometimes that requires a little more precision from an actor, because you have to pull people in as opposed to throwing it to them.”
“I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.”
“Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.”
“I believe that people want to hear good songs and they want to be moved.”
“I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.”
“When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially dealing with the same things.”
“I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.”
“The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.”
“I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.”
“There are a lot of people who talk about a formula for being able to start a fan base. But for me, it's been about songs and just being hard on myself as a writer, feeling like there is a purpose to it all.”