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I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.

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I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
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I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.
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I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head.
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I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.
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The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
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It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
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I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.
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I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.
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The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.
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I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
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I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.
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It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.
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Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
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The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.
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The image is an image.
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There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
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My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
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If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.
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A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.
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There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.
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I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.
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A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
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My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.
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You're never promised your next breath.
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I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.
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It's very important to vote. People died for this right.
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I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.
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I am trying to get closer to God.
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My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
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A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.
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I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.
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You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
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We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.
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Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
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Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.
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God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.
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It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.
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God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.
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Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
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I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.
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If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.
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