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Record making is an extraordinary experience.

That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.

Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

I'm the first from Ethiopia getting 1500-meter world record; that is amazing.

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.

I felt so relaxed. It just felt very easy, and that's why it surprised me that I had broken my world record.

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.