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Corinne Bailey Rae

Profession : Singer

Birth : February 26, 1979

We live in a capitalist society, so our power as people who consume is significant. I boycott unethical companies and avoid buying stuff made in sweatshops and stuff that will end up in landfills.

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As an artist, you want to form your own identity and be your own performer.

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I'm compelled to make music.

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Don't spend time wishing your life away, waiting for things to be perfect.

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In America sometimes I'll play to a full black audience of young people, they will be really getting into this super-aggressive guitar music. It's really great to know that people who are coming to the gigs don't have any particular expectations.

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I never wanted to be a pop star.

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My dad hates reggae. He's from St. Kitts, which is a really British island, with Victorian values. He doesn't have a strong Caribbean accent. He didn't play Caribbean music in the house. He was really into soul music, collecting soul 45s.

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I'm just a generally hopeful person.

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I'm really aware that I can't hide any of my feelings.

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Being a musician is quite cerebral - there's a lot of sitting around.

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Reggae is not music I know inside-out.

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On the first album, it was me and a producer in a basement going though hundreds of snare drum sounds to find the right one.

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I don't get involved with what other people say in reviews.

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Punk and jazz are the opposite ends of the same spectrum because they are both looking for freedom and they give musicians the right to take music in their own directions.

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I think I just really, really love singing.

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Life is full of things that you can't predict.

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I hate the way make-up feels.

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Language and poetry are endlessly fascinating. The most brilliant work can be so sparse yet so full of meaning. That's what I'm looking for in a song: imagery to describe things in ways that are perfectly concise. I'm constantly trying to find one hard, crystal thing.

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You know, I think that nature has such a powerful message about moving from dark to light, and bitterness to sweetness.

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As an artist, you have to express yourself. You just can't stop being an artist.

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