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" Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating. "
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" I think everything in life comes in threes: heartbreak and all that. You've got to do the full round in order to learn. "
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" I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there. "
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" I'm always looking for silhouettes that seem 'invisible' to the eye, as in that it's so well-tailored to your body that you won't even notice what you're wearing. It needs to be dramatic in a subtle way. "
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" If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal. "
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" My favorite thing in the world is to have just a big dinner with friends and just sit and talk about their life and their difficulties and all of that. "
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" I'm just not interested in getting judged or getting people to love me. Being seen and taking my photo and having to follow this schedule all the time, I don't enjoy it. "
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" I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself. "
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" It's amazing, coconut oil. I use it as a moisturizer. I put it in my hair when I want a kind of greasy look. I take off my makeup with it. I put a little bit in my coffee. I have coconut oil with everything. "
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" My dream is to one day just be me and my guitar. I'm working myself to the core. Who am I, underneath everything else? I'm still on that journey, to find that core. "
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" Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together. "
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