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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.
- 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…
- 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.…
- I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
- So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.
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- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster