Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.
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Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
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It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.
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Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy, and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.
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And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.
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I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.
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It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
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I'm here to sing.
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I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.