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" I think anyone who is ever on TV is a role model for somebody. "
India Arie
Model
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" The thought crossed my mind about not wanting to alienate my fan base, but I don't know what would alienate them or bring them in, so I decided not to think about it. "
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Mind
Bring
Know
" I had been on what seemed to be a hiatus to the outside world, but I was actually working very hard on my health, my emotional health, and my business. "
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Health
Business
Hard
" Neo-soul is really less about a sound than it is about a look, in my opinion. "
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Sound
Less
Look
" That's the kind of music I want SoulBird to represent: music with intelligence and heart, music that moves people in their souls and their bodies. Music with wings. "
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Music
Kind
Intelligence
" Obviously, I've been heartbroken. We all know what that feels like. "
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Heartbroken
Like
Know
" Everybody has a spiritual body. Everybody has a physical body, and so your spiritual body is the stuff that holds all of your emotions like your body holds your organs, your food, your muscles, your water. Your spiritual body holds your emotional state and your mental state. "
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Water
Food
Spiritual
" Everybody has their own path. I got mine. "
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Own
Everybody
Got
" It's OK to wear white in the wintertime. Do what you want. "
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Wintertime
Wear
White
" I like Brandy a lot. She's a vocal prodigy. "
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Brandy
Like
Lot
" Listening to 'Songs in the Key of Life' always puts me in a good mood. "
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Me
Life
Mood
" Your soul is between you and God. "
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God
Between
You
" Could a person really make a social contribution through music consciously? I mean, beyond making a person happy to hear the song and more making a social contribution consciously through your music? For me, Stevie Wonder is the paragon of that. And I didn't want to be Stevie Wonder, but I did want to do what he does. "
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Want
Wonder
Music
" Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation. "
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Things
Meditation
Keep
" If I were not a black artist but I was still singing, playing guitar, and singing ballads that are spiritual and cerebral, I'd be easier to market because people accept that from white female singer-songwriters faster. "
India Arie
White
Singing
Black
" I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular? "
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Life
Deep
Why
" I always have something by Stevie Wonder in my CD player. "
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Something
Wonder
Always
" Every once in a while, I find something that I'm interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls. "
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Dolls
Singing
Like
" I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer. Many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical. My grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood. "
India Arie
Blood
Music
Mother
" I want to always be classy and honest, and I always want to have fun with music, and if I can't really express who I am through my music, then it's not really fun anymore. "
India Arie
Fun
Want
Music
" For me, the healing process starts with graciousness and forgiveness. "
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Me
Forgiveness
Healing
" What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back. "
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Back
Year
Love
" Our food choices show up on our body. "
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Our
Up
Show
" I do believe in prophecy. "
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Prophecy
Believe
" With 'Acoustic Soul,' I saw my music as sparse. But I didn't do that because I was making a commitment to be commercial. That's what made 'Acoustic Soul' so difficult to produce. It took 2 1/2 years because I couldn't figure out what I wanted and still be commercial. "
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Soul
Commitment
Difficult
" Music lives in my mother - she's played in bands in Detroit and toured and did the whole thing. So I have somebody who's done it all to just talk to. And we write songs together. "
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Music
Talk
She
" 'Open Door' was a world music project and bilingual. It was in Hebrew and English, and it's great. I do think it's really beautiful. But it's very emotional and very dark - in a good way. "
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Great
Door
Beautiful
" The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words. "
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Jokes
Words
Power
" One of the things that helped me to be confident is to be the kind of musician that I respect. I always liked musicians who wrote their own songs, and so I started writing my own songs. "
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Me
Respect
My Own
" What I love about Stevie Wonder is the way he makes people feel. He's one of the best examples of how music can heal. "
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Feel
People
Best
" The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of. "
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Afraid
Alive
Feel