I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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My sister works in an inner-city school in Greenville, South Carolina, and she brought many of her at-risk kids to our show yesterday to the sound-check. It was amazing how these kids opened up with music. Music teaches so much about focus and concentration and group dynamics and appreciation for subtlety and beauty. And that's being taken away from schools.Natalie Merchant
I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I feel like the only way we're going to achieve that is if we all take it upon ourselves. I just wish we could be a more caring society. I feel like we're social Darwinists who believe that everyone has to make it on their own. But the reality is that we all don't start out on the same footing.
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I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
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They should point to the gun manufacturers with the other hand, and if they had three hands, they could reserve one for the legislatures for allowing these weapons to be out there. I do agree that television, especially, is overwrought with violence. I can't watch it most of the time.
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I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
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