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I am human and I make mistakes.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
I Make Mistakes
Making Mistakes
Mistake
Mistakes
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I've always dressed like a dude.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Dressed
Dude
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I need to be able to face things.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Able
Faces
Needs
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Nobody considers a covers record an album.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Albums
Records
Considers
Covers
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People and their religions don't affect me.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Affect
Religions
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I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Men
Los Angeles
Moved
Angeles
Los
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I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Brain
Guts
Problem
Brains
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Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Hard
Life Is
Life Is Hard
Life Life Is Hard Hard
Gets
Worse
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I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Diamond
Entertainers
Neil
Neil Diamond
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People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Insane
People
Thinking
Tired
Tend
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I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Clique
Impossible
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Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Crazy
Problem
Thinking
Biggest Problem
Life Crazy My Life
Tends
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We can all be free Maybe not with words Maybe not with a look But with your mind
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Looks
Mind
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Oh I do believe In all the things you see What comes is better Than what came before
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
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Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Easy
Giving Up
Might
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Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Groove
Guitar
Locks
Relax
Rhythm
Lock
Make Up
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I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Done
Records
Myself Always Done
Record
Produced
Screamed
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If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Fire
Play
Standing
Two
Time Fire Your
By The Time
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Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Connections
Hip Hop
Punk
Punk Rock
Rocks
Connection
Mostly
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We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Better Person
Mistake
Trying
Better Mistakes Always
Remind
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I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Choices
Educated
Family Background
Made
Supportive
Life Family Money
Background
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I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by myself, or like when I was a little kid.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Capture
Joy
Little Kid
Littles
Sing
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I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Hardest Thing
People
Thinking
World
Life Love World
So Many People
The Hardest Thing
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I got told I needed a producer I don't know how many times - maybe 27 times, 30? Then I recently got told 'I'm so proud of you.' That was even more great to hear.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Needed
Producers
Proud
How Many Times
Producer
Recently
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I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it's a mistake for me.
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Ballerina
Comedian
Mistake
Photographer
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I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Becoming
Homeless
Long
Long Time
Mortgage
Needed
Pay
Time Me Long
Time Long Me
Finally
Helped
Manager
Resisted
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There's just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don't know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don't invalidate me.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Good People
Surround
Best Good Myself
Express
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Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playing music. Because that's what relaxes your subconscious. That's why everyone from animals to humans love music.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Humans
Relaxed
Subconscious
Love Music Guitar
Just Be
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After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Anger
Disappointed
Self Esteem
Instrument
Musically
Tour
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From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Ballads
Bebop
Cab
Classic
Country
Gershwin
Hip Hop
Hips
Rolling
Rolling Stones
Stones
Love Me Whatever
Blues
Cliched
Covers
Folk
Hip
Hop
Terrifying
Porter
Tribal
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For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Ashamed
Changed
Impossible
Little Kid
Relax
Rolling
Thinking
Voice
Older
Hear
Sang
Mic
Sing
The One Thing
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After my second-to-last record called "The Greatest," I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, not anger towards myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
Play
Self Esteem
Years
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I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it’s a mistake for me. [...] There’s just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don’t know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don’t invalidate me.
Cat Power / Singer-Songwriter
War
Mistake
Moving
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