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" The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire. "

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" I think I'm happier, not just because of winning Grammys and selling records, but because it's really fulfilling to have all these things happen with something you love to do. "

" I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences. "

" Trump's been a public personality forever, and that's fine if you want him to be a reality-TV host, but if you want him to be president, there's a different standard. "

" I love to make fried chicken. "

" In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music. "

" Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.' "

" Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist. "

" The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male in America than Jay-Z does, by far. And that's not a diss to Jay-Z. The crime rate in the black community was high before hip hop. Rapping about it is just a reflection of the life a lot of people are living. "

" I think every film is made better by having smart music supervision that's really in tune with the spirit of the visual content. "

" I was a wedding singer as a teenager. "

" I signed with Kanye back in 2003, and at that time, 'The College Dropout' hadn't even come out, so he was still relatively unknown compared to where he is now. He wasn't a household name; people were still calling him 'Kane.' "

" I was a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan. I just loved the whole thing. Always interesting, always urgent. The stakes were always high. "

" I was homeschooled for several years. "

" I am a feminist. Women are discriminated against in so many ways, and they make up half the population. "

" I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes. "

" I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me. "

" Before every show, I eat half a rotisserie chicken. "

" I know how it feels to be a singer who wants to get discovered. "

" My fried chicken is very simple. I pan-fry it in a skillet. "

" There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life as well as other things, so I'm just like any novelist or any fiction writer who tells stories. "

" As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth. "

" My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years. "

" Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age. "

" I want to move people. "

" We should care about what is going on in the world. "

" The Obamas have been a great example for the country, and I think people are getting a bit nostalgic for that now when they see what some of the alternatives might be. "

" When we meet people who are astronauts or deal in astronomy, it's always really fascinating. "

" For me as a songwriter, I love when other people cover my songs. "

" Dr. King was unpopular while he was alive - he's only popular now because he's dead and not a threat to anyone. "

" I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary. "