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" When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way. "

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" I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay. "

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" I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older. "

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" It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing. "

" A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other... maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever. "

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" I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. "

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