"I'm closest to the music when I'm onstage with the band, playing."

-- D'Angelo

“Why were the little girls all frightened To be just what they are The boys were told to ask themselves How high how far The girls were told to reach the shelves While the boys were reaching stars That's why little girls were frightened To be just what they are.”
“An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.”
“I'm happy, but there is always room for improvement.”
“I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.”
“Who is this vague "they" we blame for so many of our problems? "They" is the obscure party we use as our whipping boy to camouflage the fact that we - you and I and other specific human beings just like us - have to start doing things differently. "They" can't fix anything. We can.”
“How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.”
“Complicated lives and heaps of possessions donâ€™t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.”
“A job is not just a job.Â Itâ€™s who you are.”

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