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You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’

Ben Harper

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
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Song Strong Thinking
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option.
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Alone Art Color Creatively Differences Possible Use
These eyes weren’t made for crying, this love wasn’t made to waste. These arms weren’t made for battle, but to share in your embrace.
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Battle Eye Relationship
I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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Children Try Want Young
What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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Anything Believe Hope
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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Empathy Humanity Needs
To go through this life and see it through – what it really is – and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.
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Insane Life Miracle
My choice is what I choose to be.
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Advice Choices Choose
They say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
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Away Sadness Taken Yesterday
I refuse to make uninspired music.
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Music Refuse Uninspired
We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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Changed Children Reflection
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
Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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Blind Heal
Every single time I step into the studio, I say, ‘Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?’ I suppose there’s a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.
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Loathing Self Steps Suppose
Now that you’ve grown up, You can finally learn to be a child, We made it to the end of the world, But we’ll never make it out alive…
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Alive Children World
When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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Grace Room Singing

You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’

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