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I'm never really trying to focus on one aim. ”
I love the music business, but I have no ambition to keep on playing. ”
If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty. ”
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective. ”
I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. ”
Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true! ”
Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day. ”
We moved to a town that's predominately Caucasian, some Hispanic and one or two black families, and they do shrimping for a living. Here come hundreds of Vietnamese doing the same occupation. So there was a lot of tension because people were saying we were taking money, shrimp, fish or whatever it is. ”
That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible. ”
Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul. ”