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" Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records. "

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Believe In Yourself

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" But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with. "

" Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house. "

" That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws. "

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" Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature. "

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" We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home. "

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