"I was a soul singer first and I'd write love songs. I find with soul music it's really hard to write about anything else. But I was 15 at the time when I was doing that and, to be honest, I'd never experienced love, so the words were kind of meaningless. With hip-hop music, it allowed me to talk about political and social things but also to tell stories."

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Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Ben Drew

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Political Quotes

“I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.”
“even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the other ... which comes back to reading poetry aloud ...”
“Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart”
“Many of us would like the world to change, but we don't want to endure the trouble of helping make it happen.”

Source : Arnold Mindell “Sitting In The Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict And Diversity”, Deep Democracy Exchange
“Australians have defied global economic gravity.”
“My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.”
“I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.”

Source : "Andie Macdowell Daughter Rainey Qualley Named Miss Golden Globe 2012" by NationalLedger.com, December 9, 2011.
“Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.”

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