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" I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. "
Smokey Robinson
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" We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves. "
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" I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God. "
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