I'm not on good terms with any of my exes. That's why we're not together anymore. We're not friends.
I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.
I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.
Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.
I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.
I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.
Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.
If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.
It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.
I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.
I'm always gonna be in opposition no matter what, but I can still cover my bases and do what I like.
What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.
I think it's empowering for women to be in a relationship or single and have their own independence.
My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.
I like feeling fresh and having really dewy skin. I like feeling moisturized and having a good brow.
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Good songwriters write about what consumes their heart, and ours is about our relationship with God.
Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.
I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.
Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.
I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.
Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
There's so much left to achieve, there's so much more to do, there's so much that has not been done.
When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.
My life hasn't always been a disaster, it's just that when it has, it's been a spectacular disaster.
As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.
You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.
I grew up with so many different songs that the ones that are fun to play are the ones I want to do.
Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.
I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.