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    A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

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    After listening to "Machine Gun" I have to take a nap.

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    A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into it.

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    A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

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    A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

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    Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.

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    At 10 o'clock in the morning I'd go right in the studio. It feels good to be there in the morning before the day starts to mess with you - I don't mean in a negative way, but before I'd speak to a lot of people or get into anything, I'd go in there and just see what I felt. A lot happens in the morning for me in the studio.

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    At first people thought I was really arrogant and a snob about music because I'm so intense about my production and sound, and because they knew I didn't like new music so much.

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    Being free is a state of mind.

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    Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while in office, not for his skin color. I certainly believe he has the capacity.

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    Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

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    Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.

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    Eventually you're going to have a digital transfer anyway when you make a CD, so it doesn't matter as long as what you're hitting first is what you want it to be.

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    Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them.

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    Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.

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    For me a watch is a really beautiful instrument. I don't so much care what time it is but I do love watches, and I love how they're constructed.

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    God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.

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    God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

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    God is love and if you are ready, he always is.

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    Good design is being able to put a $100,000 thing next to a $20 thing. If it looks right and it works then it works. It doesn't have to be expensive; it's all about the high meets low for me.

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    I always read the Capitol as f—ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It’s all happening.

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    I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

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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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    I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.

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    I basically camped out for a year and a half in an Airstream trailer on the beach out in front of the studio. I had no idea what I was gonna do, what kind of album I was gonna make - all I knew was that I wanted to sit there and just take in whatever came.

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    I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.

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    I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

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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 didn't really listen to rock 'n' roll until I moved to LA. We would ditch school, go get high, put on Zeppelin IV and just bug out.

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    I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.

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    I don't play the tuba.

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    I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

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    I enjoy what people at the concert give me and I can't do it without them, so it's really an exchange of energy that snowballs back and forth and becomes something that's very satisfying and very magical.

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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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    I feel like my best work is in front of me. I'm in the studio now, and I'm having an amazing time making this new album. It's something I can't help.

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    I fell in love with Paris the first time I went.

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    If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.

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    I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don't get to do it often . . .

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    If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

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    I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.

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    If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.

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    If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from the '60s and the '70s - who the guitar player is, who the drummer is, who the producer was, what studio it was recorded in. That's how I grew up listening to music. We bought albums. We read the liner notes. It was important to know the whole history behind it.

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    If you heard my records and no one told you, I don't think you'd know whether it's a band or one guy.

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    If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.

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    I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish.

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    I get hired as a writer or producer and I do the best I can to bring out that artist. If somebody calls you to do something, you go right for that vision and you're aware of that person's vibe. You're trying to get inside of them.

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    I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.

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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 haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.

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    I honestly don't remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album is like that. It may be that there are different locations, it may take longer, shorter, or whatever, but it's always something that just happened.