"I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots"

-- Smokey Robinson

“What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.”
“The very flowers are sacred to the poor.”
“Register my money, for the money gymnastic. Cause I make it flip now they be lookin all nasty.”
“Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.”
“To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.”
“With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.”
“I think when people see that you are shy, or even just calm, collected and reserved, they think you can be pushed around, made to do everything they want - but that's definitely not true of me. The people closest to me know that's not the case. They know I'm not a pushover.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.”

Source : "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

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