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The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.
Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.
I've done the performing monkey stuff and massive breakdowns, it's just they weren't documented.
I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.
I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.
I love to push myself! Stepping outside of my comfort zone is what will make me a better artist.
What is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth.
Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.
I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.
I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.
With everybody that I've met, there's always been something I've learned about them that I like.
I'm not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It's like a man purse. It's a whole thing.
I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
If somebody has done something to disrespect you as a man, I feel like I have to protect myself.
Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.
Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.
My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.
I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.
I don't fight my ability to sing sad songs: it's what I am good at, so I must be built for that.
Simon Cowell seems like a very nice guy, but I think he's a secondhand Mickie Most to be honest.
In and out of dimensions I walk through walls, just saying you can't put me in a box that's all.
Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore
When I'm on tour, I'm in really good shape. When I get home, I cook, I eat, I get fat and happy.
I think honesty is a big part. Because when you sing live, you want the audience to believe you.
A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.
What tries to break us is endlessly fascinating to me. Joy is a whole different game to express.
I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!
I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
Honey, I don't care, I ain't in love with your hair, and if it all fell out I'd love you anyway.
When I first studied Billie Holiday's life story years ago, I admit that I was quite judgmental.
I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music.
Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at.
I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.
I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.
I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.
Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.
I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.
The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp
Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.
I do come alive in front of a camera. The first video I ever made was a formative moment for me.
Timeless and unclassifiable - that's the goal. My oddness is the pursuit of this above all else.
We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.
Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.
I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.
When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I'm prepared to kiss a lot of frogs.