When you’re young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I’ve graduated from that school.
LAURYN HILLSee fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
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I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I’ve done nothing. I’ve done nothing. I mean that sincerely.
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See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
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Never underestimate those who you scar.
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What was freely given to me, I freely give.
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Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you’ve just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
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I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don’t have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.
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I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
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In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.
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You don’t know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It’s all in the practice.
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See no one loves you more than me and no one ever will.
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We call ourselves creators and we just copy.
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Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.
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And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.
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I find, even though it’s raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I’m just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.
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I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.
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