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“New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love the immediate nature of the city, you can get whatever you want whenever you want it and do whatever you want whenever you want to.”
Source : "Harlem River Blues Man". Interview With Michael Slenske, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 23, 2011. 
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“The worst side of people is political part of the process, the side that can be very mean and nasty.”
Source : Source: www.gq.com
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“A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.”
Source : "So Long a Letter".
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“If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.”
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“Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.”
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“For good is simple, evil manifold.”
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“I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.”
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“It doesn't matter much what kind of house you've got as long as it's a happy home...”
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“I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.”
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“Freedom of speech does not mean that you have to agree with everything that a comedian says, but that comedian should have the freedom to be able to try to make that funny. It's the attempt that I'm trying to defend so hard, no necessarily the execution.”
