My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.
Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off. It's balance.
I do my best; I put out things I believe in and if you don't like it then pass on to something else.
The battle goes on for me; as a gay man, I shall not be happy until I see equality across the board.
Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.
What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.
My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.
Without missing a beat Roger says, All the moneys right down here and points to the 1st three frets.
I'm a huge salsa fan. I actually have a salsa on my album, 'Formula Vol. 2,' featuring Marc Anthony.
I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn.
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves
We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.
I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
God is great. God is faithful. And His love is set upon us. We come as we are, with trembling trust.
I love the morning time - a cup of coffee and to sit at the piano, that's probably my favorite time.
I shopped with G-Dragon a long time ago but now that we live together, I can't buy clothes with him.
Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.
As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.
I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.
I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.
That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.
Ron White was not one of the very first original members of the Motown staff, but eventually he was.
Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.
I'm super-sensitive when it comes to my sister. I've been known to snap off a little bit behind her.
I haven't had the most lucrative career. If I'm going to be completely honest, I'm a one-hit wonder.
Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.
I prefer consider Stromae as a collective project. Stromae is not me. Or at least it is not only me.
Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.
After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.
It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you're too young to trust yourself.
As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.
Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.
You will never be able to find happiness if you stay attached to the wrong person and don't move on.
I think that it’s fearless to fall for your best friend, even though he’s in love with someone else.
Seems like there's always someone who disapproves. They'll judge it like they know about me and you.
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine.
I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.
In life, you have to learn how to heal. You never get over stuff, but you have to learn how to heal.
My deal will always be one solo performance-nominated or not. Not some thrown together rock tribute.
You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.
There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.
In real life I'm bone dry and when I play I'm a mango and in sex I'm starving to be a dripping mango
Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.
I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.