You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
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The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
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It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
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