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When somebody notices me in the slightest, I can feel the eyes - boom-boom - as soon as they pass.
I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.
I don't live anywhere. I have always dreamed of moving out of my country because Sweden is boring.
I honestly kind of hate shopping. My favorite places to shop are rich old lady consignment stores.
No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else
To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.
There are any number of things that would be detrimental to your career. Everyone's really afraid.
Because I've taken my clothes off in public doesn't mean that I've revealed every inch of my soul.
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.
I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.
As a songwriter, I was always mining my own depths, which were filled with confusion and darkness.
I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33.
My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.
It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.
The seeds that we speed into life to be trees, will soon become fallen if thier roots aren't deep.
For when our hearts were far away, Your love went further still, yes Your love goes further still!
I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.
There are very few interviews I turn down, because I really dig talking to people and hanging out.
People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write.
Before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.
I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.
I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.
Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.
As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.
Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.
One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.
There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.
There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
When I booked 'Hairspray,' I really didn't have a support system other than my family and friends.
I like driving. I'm a real sucker for driving across North America - I never get sick of it, ever.
Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.
Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.
The ocean does something to me that is unexplainable. Just being out there and realizing im alive.
I never hang my feet off the end of the bed -I'm afraid little gremlins will bite my toes! Really!
As long as you know, within yourself, that you're no better than anyone else out there, you're OK.
Image has an influence on what sort of car I will get to drive or deals that I'm offered by teams.
I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.
If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.
Anything can wait for a hit record. That, after all, is what everyone wants at the end of the day.
I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.
I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.
I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.
I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.
'When I'm Sixty-Four' hasn't worn well, but George Harrison's 'Within You Without You' is awesome.