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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I'd trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin.
For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.
His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.
In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.
I tried football and got my ass beat. I tried baseball, and the ball knocked out one of my teeth.
Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.
[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.
I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.
I am definitely not listening to anything remotely close to my music, at least not on a nice day.
The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.
I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.
I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She's so sweet and adorable and hilarious.
I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.
When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.
I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.
Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!
I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.
Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
For us, we are interested in doing what's cool for us and what's cool for the audience. That's it.
I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.
I remember, when I first left Phoenix for L.A. I was 19, and I arrived with just $1000 to my name.
I mean, a lot of the times I think I'm seen as a bad girl, and I think that's because I'm so open.
November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.
Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
I still feel like the 10-year-old dancing in front of her mirror, mostly to 'No Strings Attached.'
I see a lot of people who just want to get on the TV screens, no matter if there is talent or not.
I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.
Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.
Yeah, I'm just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I'm very healthy in that regard.
I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.
It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.
When you're successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
As long as you continue to have new songs, there's usually some new topic or something to present.
I've done a collaboration with Action Bronson, which is, like, the coolest thing I've done so far.
I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.
I don't try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.