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" If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple. "

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" The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center has this wonderful program where they take in the youth, feed them, help them learn how to cook, clean, they help them get jobs, help them learn how to save their money, and they have shelters all over the city. "

" Sometimes I'll look back at old pictures where I'm a little heavy and dressed funny and think, 'How did I get chicks all the time?' "

" I usually write songs in a guy key because my voice is so husky. "

" I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am. "

" For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound. "

" I don't ever get too literal. "

" Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at the future of music because they're concentrating so hard on what they can get from it right this second. It's really hard to see an artist; it's a lot easier to see money. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I just love music. I love writing songs. It's not even a job; it's a gift. I'm waiting for someone to kick me out of the party because I snuck in here, and I keep thinking somebody's going to figure out that I have no clue. Turns out that most of them have even less of a clue. "

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

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

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

" I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it. "

" I get to do all the styles of music that I love. There's no boundaries; there's nobody holding on to me saying I can't do that. "

" There's nothing you could do to me, nothing you could take away from me that would make me feel like I wasn't going to be all right. "

" You create something in your bedroom or your house, and it's just a fun thing that you're doing. Then, all of a sudden, you hear that song that you started in your house, and it's on the radio. And people are now acknowledging it. It's just trippy. What a life. "

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

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

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" I'm really good at bringing out greatness - in anybody. I don't even have to be in the studio. What a gift to be able to help people bring out the best qualities in them. "

" You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter. "

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