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The Key Things Are About Power And About Growing Up And Realizing As You Grow Up That There Are Consequences For The Choices You Make, Especially When You Get Seduced By Power.

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The Key Things Are About Power And About Growing Up And Realizing As You Grow Up That There Are Consequences For The Choices You Make, Especially When You Get Seduced By Power.

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In Order For My Live Performance To Work, Which Is About Generating A Focused Energy For About An Hour And A Half, It Is Necessary For Me To Listen And Take In Someone Else's Focused Energy The Day Of Or The Day Before The Live Show. That Can Transpire Through A Conversation, Or Inspiration Can Occur By Looking Through Any Type Of Visual Book Which Sparks A Narrative. That Narrative Then Becomes Today's Seed And Can Then Take Root In Music Terms, Where A Sonic Tree Begins To Grow.

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It's Emotional Blackmail To Say If You're A Good Businesswoman And A Musician, You're Betraying Your Music.

I Don't Choose To Analyze What I Have Done And I Think That Is The Right Choice, Because Then I Won't Be Spending My Time Creating.

There Are Older Men With Younger Women But You Don't See A Lot Of Older Women With Younger Men. There Are Some Women Who Have Been Able To Do It But Not Often.

Get Off The Cross, We Need The Wood.

If All I Can Say Is I'm Not In This Swamp, I'm Not In This Swamp Then There Is Not A Rope In Front Of Me And There Is Not An Alligator Behind Me And There Is Not A Girl Sitting At The Edge Eating A Hot Dog And If I Believe That, Then Dying Would Be The Only Answer Because Then Death Couldn't Come And Say Peachy To Me Anymore And After All She Has A Brother Who Believes In Hope.

You Have To Be Clear What Your Message Is And What You're Doing. I Mean, Miley Cyrus Is An Amazing Talent, And Sometimes You Kind Of Just Want To Say, 'we Know You're Not Hannah Montana Anymore. We Know That, My Dear. My Darling. Now, Go Be Great.'

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