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" Everyone who gave me food, who took away my hunger, inspired me to compose. They told me their stories, and I had no other way to console them than with a piece of music, and that is how I learned. I did not resolve their problems with my songs, but I created a moment of release. "

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" Let others worry about their own lives, and let the rest of us live. "

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" When I have the opportunity to work, I organize a whole party - like what you perhaps saw at the Grammys. "

" I've learned during my life that if I am in hell, I make my own glory. I've also been in glory, and perhaps I've made my own hell, but I certainly don't take anyone down with me. "

" My mother didn't know what to do with me. "

" Since I was sent to an orphanage, and I saw very little of my mother, I can counsel mothers that you shouldn't abandon your children. Before you bring a child into the world, think deeply about things, so that they lack absolutely nothing, least of all love. "

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" When I was very young, I sold the rights to my work... through 2000. "