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God, I mean I had so many people tell me, 'What you're doing doesn't work.' I used to have to get on stage and apologize for talking the way that I speak.

For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.

I thought if I looked back and evaluated my life, it would help me in the future.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

For me, at the end of the day, I want to be judged for my work, not for what I've been through and past experiences, necessarily.

When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.

Every single thing I've done has made me who I am today. The only thing I would take back is hurting the people that I love, and the people who I love have already read my lyrics and heard my apologies. But the rest of the world, I don't need to apologize to them. My life doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the world.