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I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, 'Oh, everybody's perfect except me. Everything's smooth except me.' But nothing is smooth.

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Source: Defending her song "Ancestors", which had been alleged to be "really hard to listen to". Newsweek, 6 September 2004.
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