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Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it’s done.

Ben Harper

When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
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Adages Everything Loses
If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
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Interview Lifetime Men
You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it
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Mind Time Want
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
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Color Heart Music
If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around. Cause I’m gonna burn one down.
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Causes Fire Philosophy
Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
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Bottle Lightning Often Show Sometimes Time
Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I’d rather walk alone than chase you around, I’d rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.
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Fall Relationship Resist Temptation
People say, “How do you write songs?” I say, “Patience.” I may have a track that’s hot, but no words. I’ll just let it sit for years, because I know they’re going to meet. They’ll find it.
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Meet Song Writing Years
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one’s own self-obsession.
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Firsts Obsession Self
But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.
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Blessing Comeback People
Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It’s like heaven to me I must confess.
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Country Fall Rain
I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.
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Better Hands Place Two World
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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Diminishing Interviews Return Returns
Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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Good Hit Mean Music
You’re definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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Different Person Stage
There’s something in everyone only they know.
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Empathy Everyone Knows Something
Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it’s done.
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Discipline Knowing Writing
You look like gold. I’ve been fooled before, but now I know I’ve made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
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Differences Mistakes Past
Love for me is my North Star. It’s the highest form of grace. And I love that there’s different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it’s love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.
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Children Sibling Stars
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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Empathy Humanity Needs
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Ethics Long Moral
There’s only one proper way a song should go, but you’ve got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise.
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Song Together Wise
Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you’ve ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that’s life. Who isn’t like that? What’s the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
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Arrogant Guy Humble
When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.
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Color Risk Taken
I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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Appreciate Done Land
I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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Bones Lightning Sunset
My choice is what I choose to be.
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Advice Choices Choose

Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it’s done.

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Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it’s done.

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