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You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it.
The greatest of men, they don't get too big to cry. They just loose faith in love and life.
My boyfriends going to college so I made him tattoo my name on his foot so I know he's mine
I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.
The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.
I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.
I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.
When I sing, my face changes shape. It feels like my skull changes shape... the bones bend.
When I'm not working is when I tend to freak out a bit. It's hard for me to just stay home.
I mean, it's pretty hard to fight and hate and be angry when you're making music, isn't it?
I like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged.
A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.
I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.
It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.
Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key.
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.
Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.
I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
It's good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.
The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.
I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
For me, the live show is sort of the ultimate expression of this journey that I've been on.
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.
Dubstep has been big in the UK for years. I'm fine with hearing a dubstep drop in any song.
I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a guy.
You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.
I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.
I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
Sometimes love comes around and it knocks you down just get back up when it knocks you down
I think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal.
I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.
That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.
Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone And defecating on your microphone.
Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.
People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.
Sometimes I think I want to get 'hair and make up' every day, but that's just not possible.
Unless the radio is on I am usually listening to stuff that is very different to what I do.
I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.
Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.
Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.
You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.
I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.
You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.
The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.