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I'm doing what I want to do, and I don't care what you think you need!
If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?
Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.
I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
You are so much more, than your orientation, you know it and I know it.
When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.
Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.
I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning.
Sometimes when you're going through life you're not really noticing it.
Violin was my first form of expression - and is still in a lot of ways.
Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.
Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.
I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.
As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.
If you're beautiful within, a person can fall in love with your spirit.
I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
I watched my mom suffer from a divorce where she depended on my father.
Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.
If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.
Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.
We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.
Ever since I was a kid, I've always been a real deep thinker and stuff.
It would be flattering to be thought of as someone who celebrated life.
If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.
I think I'm going to Katmandu, that's really, really where I'm going to
I consider myself a bit of a comedian. I write a lot of humorous songs.
Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
The hardest thing about being on the road is not being with my animals.
I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
I know I'm probably much too late to try and apologize for my mistakes.
The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.
My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.
Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.
In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.
Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.
The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.
I feel that my fans deserve to get something that's authentic and real.
This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway, oh no, this is the road to hell.
I'd never intended to write a Christmas hit - I was a serious musician!