"Healthy parenting is especially challenging when our own childhoods weren't healthy. It requires energy, attention, and constant restraint. Realize that you need healing. Take time out to nurture yourself."

“I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.”

“The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.”

“When you have an audience that embraces you that much, you really want to give them your best. It becomes a really interactive experience instead of just playing a show to random people - there's a connection.”

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“The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.”

“They that make laws must not break them.”

“I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever.”

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“Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between where low-income and high-income families live.”

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“I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.”

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