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At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.
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I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.
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After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.
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Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.
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I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.
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I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.
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I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.
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I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.
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I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!
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Love's a recurring theme through my work.
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My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.
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People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.
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Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
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Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
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The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.
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We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.
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When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.
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With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.
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I'm a hopeful cynic.
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We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.
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You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.
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Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
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I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
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The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although people don't talk about it, there are a lot of issues of race determining musical categories of what's rock, R&B, or even folk. It ends up restricting creativity.
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I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.
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Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually need, like a hammer or a broom or a toothbrush. But now there's this notion that they can sell you anything. And all they have to do is convince you that you need it.
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As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.
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I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.
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I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.
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I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.
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