- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a geek when it comes to my voice. I know if it hurts, something's wrong. You shouldn't feel it! It's very important to look after your voice.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that's likely: How you look as you age is hereditary. Some of my family members, for example, look younger than their real age. And people have mistaken me for 30, even 25.
- Aging
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't; you need a gene to be active for it.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020