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I think truth is weirder than fiction.


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I think you have an obligation to be honest.


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I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.
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I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.
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To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.
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To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.
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My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.


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Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.


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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.


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To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids.
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I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.
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