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It's hard losing a parent, especially dad because he was always behind me. It was his dream and my dream for me to become a footballer.
Riyad Mahrez
Me
Losing
Become
Dream
Parent
He
Footballer
Because
Always
His
Behind
Hard
Dad
When you have the ball, you are free.
Riyad Mahrez
You
Free
Ball
I want to play Champions League every year; I want to be at a big club and win trophies. That's my target.
Riyad Mahrez
Win
Big
Year
Club
Every
Trophies
League
Target
Want
Play
Champions
Champions League
It is up to me to adapt and to continue to surprise with my positioning, the timing of my runs, the trajectories, when I call for the ball.
Riyad Mahrez
Me
Timing
Positioning
Runs
Call
Ball
Surprise
Continue
Up
Adapt
To be good is not enough; you also have to make your team win. And, when you are an attacker, that most often happens through a goal or through an assist.
Riyad Mahrez
Good
You
Win
Enough
Through
Most
Also
Make
Goal
Often
Happens
Your
Team
Team Win
Assist
When people mention me and Messi together, it's amazing because, to me, Messi is the best of the best. You can't say anything to him; he's the boss.
Riyad Mahrez
Best
Me
You
Together
People
Amazing
Say
Boss
Mention
He
Him
Messi
Because
Anything
My early memories of my dad were taking me to play football when I was six - they are happy ones. They are my favourites.
Riyad Mahrez
Me
Memories
Happy
Favourites
Football
Taking
Were
Six
Dad
Play
Play Football
Early
When I play at home, I feel like I'm flying.
Riyad Mahrez
Home
Flying
Feel
Like
Play
You can be first, and then in six games, you can be 12th. The results can just flip, and everybody can forget.
Riyad Mahrez
You
First
Everybody
Results
Forget
Six
Just
Then
Games
Flip
Certainly, writing a book was challenging. It took me a long time to learn how to do it. It took me seven years to get a sense of how to wean myself off the process and trickery of songwriting. You realize that giant metaphors work in songs because you have so few words. Standing alone on a page, they threaten to be overblown in a hurry.
Rodney Crowell
Work
Alone
Time
Myself
Me
You
Book
Writing
Words
Long
Long Time
Few
Sense
Took
Seven
Giant
Trickery
Hurry
Threaten
Songs
Songwriting
Learn
Because
How
Metaphors
Years
Off
Get
Process
Realize
Page
Certainly
Standing
Standing Alone
Challenging
I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative flow.
Rodney Crowell
Will
Sense
Say
Ability
Had
Songs
Sort
Narrative
Always
Inflated
Maybe
Sequence
Flow
Violence was very much a part of my mother's upbringing - a little less so with my father's, but my father was an angry man when he was young. He was angry and frustrated and had no idea how to channel anger.
Rodney Crowell
Angry
Man
Anger
Mother
Father
Young
Channel
No Idea
Had
He
Part
Idea
How
Very
Upbringing
Frustrated
Little
Much
Less
Violence
I never allowed writer's block to be a reality. I framed it up for myself early on. I said, 'OK, if I'm not writing, the well is just filling up. I'm going to be patient with this.'
Rodney Crowell
Myself
Reality
Writing
Be Patient
Patient
Framed
OK
Writer
Never
Allowed
Well
Said
Block
Up
Going
Just
Filling
Early
My family was very poor. Strangely, though, my father was an enigma in that he was always working. He was not a ne'er-do-well. He wasn't lazy. He just couldn't hold on to money. It just, it was an enigma for him. He just, his pockets were always empty.
Rodney Crowell
Family
Money
Father
Though
Pockets
Lazy
He
Him
Empty
Always
Were
His
Very
Just
Hold
Poor
Working
Strangely
Enigma
My father had a perfectly good drummer who he had an argument with. So one day, on a Tuesday, my father came in with a cheap pawn shop set of drums and said, 'Put your foot here, and you kick there, and you play this, and this is the high hat.' And Friday night, I was playing in a honky-tonk.
Rodney Crowell
Good
Day
You
Father
Argument
Kick
One Day
High
Hat
Foot
Had
Cheap
He
Put
Perfectly
Drummer
Drums
Said
Came
Friday
Friday Night
Shop
Tuesday
Pawn
Your
Who
Play
Here
Playing
Night
Set
Because of my methodology and my sensibilities to write songs, I'm not very comfortable with the notion to rush in any creative endeavor.
Rodney Crowell
Creative
Endeavor
Rush
Write
Songs
Comfortable
Because
Methodology
Very
Any
Sensibilities
Notion
I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it. But I would be disingenuous if I didn't say that my intention is poetry.
Rodney Crowell
Poet
Consideration
Say
Would
Would-Be
Bestow
Someone
Poetry
Take
Intention
Where
Cannot
Disingenuous
I wouldn't go as far to say that anything that I've done is timeless.
Rodney Crowell
Say
Go
Timeless
Done
Anything
Far
Townes Van Zandt ranks alongside Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan. He inspired so many songwriters to shoot for something that's timeless.
Rodney Crowell
Ranks
Van
Something
Inspired
He
Songwriters
Alongside
Timeless
Shoot
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
Many
It's a gift that we get to do the work that we do to call ourselves artists.
Rodney Crowell
Work
Gift
Ourselves
Call
Get
Artists
'The Outsider' is a culmination of a lot of things I've been working diligently toward as a recording artist. Hopefully it will render my past pigeonholing obsolete while positioning me more solidly as a socially conscious American singer/songwriter. Wouldn't that be entertaining?
Rodney Crowell
Me
Will
Recording
Past
Positioning
Diligently
Hopefully
Entertaining
More
Recording Artist
Outsider
Toward
Obsolete
Render
Culmination
Been
Lot
American
Artist
While
Working
Conscious
Socially
Things
I've often said to young songwriters when they want to write with me, 'Let's take a stab at ten songs, and we might get one really good one.'
Rodney Crowell
Good
Me
Young
Ten
Write
Take
Songs
Songwriters
Said
Get
Often
Want
Might
Really
Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say.
Rodney Crowell
Me
Song
Writing
Better
Sometimes
Say
Tells
Through
Wants
Speaks
I can't make a perfect record. When I try to, I bleed all the feeling out of it.
Rodney Crowell
Try
Feeling
Out
Record
Perfect
Bleed
Make
Favorite country singer of all time... Hank Williams... Well, then there's Willie Nelson. Can I have three? I can't do one. Then if I have three, I'll need five. Hank Williams for sure. Willie Nelson. Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.
Rodney Crowell
Time
Three
Country
Favorite
Williams
Willie
Willie Nelson
Nelson
All-Time
Cash
Johnny
Johnny Cash
Country Singer
Singer
Well
Sure
Five
Hank
Hank Williams
Then
Need
I read Nabakov for style, Mary Karr for heart and resonance of where I come from. She's from the same part of the world that I'm from. Cormac McCarthy and Hemingway, to read the masters.
Rodney Crowell
Heart
World
Style
Resonance
Mary
Part
Come
She
Read
Masters
Same
Where
McCarthy
Hemingway
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