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" When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it! "
Liz Phair
Happy
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" You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction. "
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" I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to. "
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" Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different. "
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" You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it. "
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" Everyone wants to get into soundtracks. Everyone wants to do songs here and there. But, I think they want it for different reasons. I think I'm just tumbling through my life, enjoying playing with everybody. "
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" That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win. "
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" I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time. "
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" Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh. "
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" I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now. "
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" I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror. "
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" I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once. "
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