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" I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write. "

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" I don't ever get too literal. "

" I nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves. "

" I'm extremely hard to work with. "

" I love just helping people; that's what I'm good at. "

" I'm overcritical, insensitive, and pushy when it comes to me. With everybody else, I'm a great listener, and all I want is for them to be happy. "

" It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying to write a song based on where you're at right at this moment. "

" Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion. "

" You need a big team to support a career. "

" In no way am I a spiritual person. I'm not some guru geek. "

" I'm just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe. "

" People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so. "

" We're married. We are one now. There's no running away. We have to deal with things together and figure them out, and that's the greatest gift. I'm in it. People ask me, 'How do you maintain a relationship?' I don't know, but all I do know is that I chose Sara to be the one, and when I choose something, that's all that matters, and I'm totally in. "

" I love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different. "

" Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color. "

" I'm able to switch gears at any moment. "

" I'm a fast learner, and I believe in change, and I believe in growing, and I believe in moving forward and not staying in the same place. "

" I don't read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I'm playing. I like being naive when it comes to that. "

" For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something that you've created, just that experience is enormous. You don't get that all the time. "

" My family, they are definitely not an ordinary family. "

" I wanted to go back to writing for myself and my fans. I built my own recording studio, started my own label, and decided to use the Internet to sell my records. "

" I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love. "

" I've been touching instruments since the day I was born. My mother is Brazilian, and she listens to Brazilian music. My father was a musician, and I've seen pictures of him when he was in a band playing guitar and piano. He loved country music, Frank Sinatra, and stuff like that. "

" When making any record, a producer has a list of things you hope an artist brings to the studio. Songs that are strong even without the bells and whistles. "

" I don't feel the need to be in the spotlight whatsoever. "

" I want to be perceived - or maybe I perceive myself - as this really easygoing, honest person that's just giving. Realistically, I have those qualities, but I'm very aggressive. I can be very harsh. It comes off almost mean, you know? "

" I don't think I could make a pop album. "

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