"When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment."
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"I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing."
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"Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault."
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"It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person."
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"You can't subvert knowledge until you have knowledge... At the same time, I respect a student coming at it from a totally different position and trying to move it forward, and not falling into the rattrap of work that came before."
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"I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle."
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"When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel."
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"I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness."
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"I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that."
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"I'm trying to get out of my own way"
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"...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up, animates, and exalts every other, just as there are theatrical and musical performances which without any clearly discernible cause seem to ascend miraculously to glorious climaxes and intensely felt experiences, whereas others, just as well prepared, remain no more than decent tries."
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"I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time."
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"Often people try and just consider music as music, in a musical context. People seem to forget that music is not just audio material - it's also the artwork, the packaging it comes in."
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"It's just a challenge doing live television every week, you know, it's a challenge to come up with new material every week and stuff like that and try to keep it current, you know what I mean, like it's just, you know, it's a kind of a stressful environment. Like I didn't really realize that we had a show this Thursday until yesterday."
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