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" If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate. "

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" I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been. "

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" The trouble with normal is it always gets worse. "

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" I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.' "

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" 'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience. "

" I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album. "