"I want to throw my voice more, I want to manipulate melody more... I want to be less deliberate and mechanical... I want less melody."
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"I've been working a lot on figuring out how to sing differently and better. I want to become a better singer. I want to sing out more. I want to me more extroverted, vocally."
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"All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things."
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"We've been spending this kind of ramp up time from the time we started the company to now with a lot of different projects in development. What we aren't doing is saying, "We have to do this, this and this." Because the "this, this and this" might not be ready and you don't want to go and make something that's not ready."
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"Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add to that extraordinary flow of interpretations of the world."
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"I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting."
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"I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in my head and I can write it down. But once something is really under way, I don't want to do anything else. I don't go out, much of the time I forget to eat, I sleep very little. It's a very undisciplined way of working and makes me not very prolific. But I'm too interested in many other things."
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"Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly."
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"I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes."
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"I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted."
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"What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older."
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"Even though the American Indian Movement on a national-international scale has proven to be extremely dysfunctional, the American Indian Movement I was associated with I'm very proud of. We were a revolutionary, militant organization whose purpose was spirituality first, and that's how I want to be remembered."
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"Those who don't want to change, let them sleep."
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"Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want."
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"Because the Beloved wants to know, unseen things become manifest. Hiding is the hidden purpose of creation."
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"I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine."
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"I should be suspicious of what I want."
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"If I'm doing something as an offering unto the Lord, I want to give God my best."
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"Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life."
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"Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality."
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