"I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will."
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"I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated."
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"As the author you know how you want it to appear on screen and it's always the content dictating the form."
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"I wouldn't necessarily want to be a big muscular guy. It's nice to be gorgeous whether you're male or female assuming you don't lose whatever else you have."
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"That's what I strive for every time I'm in the studio, to make sure that y'all love it and that I'm not giving y'all something I'm expecting you to buy. I want y'all to want to buy it and want to hear it again. If you like it, go get it, if you don't, throw it out."
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"I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will."
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"I want to represent possibilities."
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"I truly believe that I can be president of the US if I really want to."
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"I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace."
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"If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future."
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"We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them."
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"If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder."
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"I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well."
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"Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge."
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"I love what I do. But I want to go home, just for four days, then I'll get back on the road again."
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"If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President."
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"I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across."
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"Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening."
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"You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise."
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"If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically."
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