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“I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
“I don't wait for people to give me respect. I always give them respect.”
“If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.”
“With me, what you see is what you get. I try to treat everyone with respect.”
“Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.”
“I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.”
“I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.”
“You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of r...”
“I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.”
“I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and b...”
“Books are challenging and inspirational to me.”
“I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.”
“I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'”
“I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.”
“Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.”
“Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.”
“I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yea...”
“But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.”
“In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.”
“That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.”
