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The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends.

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Robyn
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: June 12
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I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.
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People say, I can't take you seriously because you're so young. But I think when you're young, what you feel is more pure.
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It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence.
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Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet.
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You have to invest something [in your work]. If you don't risk something that really matters to you - like your integrity, or your pride, or your time, or your security, or your reputation - if you don't risk yourself, you can hear it right away.
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Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control.
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If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.
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When I started making music, I made music in a very commercial space and I didn't have room to really explore things on my own terms. It took me awhile to create a little bubble where I could explore other things, and new things. When I did that, my tools were songwriting and arranging.
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Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'
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All the big pop acts that I've been into over the years - whether it's ABBA or Prince - managed to combine amazing melodies and honest human emotion. But coming out of the super-super-commerical pop industry in the 90s, maybe people forgot about the fact that pop music can do both of those things.
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[In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of your comfort zone and be in a new space.
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The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.
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I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.
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The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.
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When we awaken to the beauty of nature, the doors to our true self are opened up wide, for divine healing on all levels.
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I don't think of myself as just a pop artist, but someone who knows she has a bigger meaning. I'm not doing this for myself I'm doing this because it's my destiny.
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It was like the part of me that had enjoyed those friends had evaporated, leaving behind a huge, echoing emptiness, and I was scrabbling on the edge of it, trying not to fall into the hole within myself because I was terrified to find out how far down it went.
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The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.
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I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity.
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Maybe I bring people into that pop world who don't usually find themselves there because there's not enough stuff for them to get excited about otherwise.
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