I'm not ashamed to admit that I've written some really bad songs and I've had some bad performances.
I do really good banana bread. And I make a chocolate cake with fudge icing that's bloody delicious.
I was the first white British woman to reach No 1 on the R&B chart - the American black music chart.
I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.
You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to.
Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.
I'm my own worst critic, so I try and not focus on what I've done wrong, or what I could improve on.
Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.
Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.
Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.
In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.
To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music.
Rock 'n' roll entertained my head but there was something about country music that touched my heart.
You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.
I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.
Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.
When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.
It's easy to say I love you with your mouth. But I like when people say I love you with their heart.
Yeah, they are loyal, women. They have been loyal. They are activists. They will fight you about me.
When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.
What's the point? you can bring in 50 witnesses and it would not change what the tape clearly shows.
Something about the way you looked at me made me think for a moment that maybe we were meant to be .
I completely understand the responsibility I have in continuing the sonic style that I have created.
I really want people to know me, to find out about me, and if they really like me, to stick with me.
In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.
My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.
I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.
I am one of three sisters and went to an all-girls grammar school so I'm used to being around girls.
My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.
I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans.
I hate that feeling of being so full that you feel like you're gonna burst, so I try not to do that.
We are in a good place. Her name is Crystal Renay. She has much promise. Yes, much promise. Quality.
To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.
As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.
Anyone knows that my music isn't just centered around sex. It's thought-evoking and feeling-evoking.
My kids have really brought me into maturity on another level and I really appreciate them for that.
I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
People need space to air out their thoughts, to have a sense of themselves - unfettered by anything.
I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.
Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.
Everything in life is a risk! I mean, you walk out onto the street and it's a risk! Don't you think?