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I need you by me, beside me, to guide me, to hold me, to scold me, cause when I'm bad, I'm so, so bad.
I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.
I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.
I always loved singing. I was always trying to sing in school plays. I was in every one I could be in.
I love hiking to the top of mountains in L.A. and seeing incredible landscapes. It really inspires me.
You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.
I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.
I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.
Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.
People like the shows I do. I want to be real, to have fun, even when I dance on stage... it's a buzz.
I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to be.
I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
If I want to dress myself a certain way, I don't want to have to rely on someone else to do it for me.
I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.
I know there's nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love
Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.
The blues will be blue, and the jealousies green, but when love picks its color it demands to be seen.
You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
I think one of the worst things people can do is try and fight the people they've agreed to work with.
Wear that cologne, shave your face, shave your head, cut your nails, you know...take care of yourself.
I've grown a lot since my first record came out - even since 'Back II da Basics' was released in 2005.
Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.
I didn't have to go to school, graduate and then go, What am I going to do? I knew from the beginning.
Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.
Proud meaning that... proud means we have to be one till the end eh? Till the end we have to be proud?
My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.
We'd sit outside and watch the stars at night She'd tell me to make a wish I'd wish we both could fly.
Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.
Music is such a powerful fundraising tool and it's so easy for me to share that and it's such a light.
Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.
If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.
Playing live is a lot of fun. You get one shot, ... But at the end of the day, it's all rock 'n' roll.
Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.
Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.
It would be nice to create something that's healing rather than slightly creepy and darkly judgmental!
My parents kept me close to them. I even slept in the same room with them throughout my younger years.
I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.
I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.
I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.
May you never lay your head down, without a hand to hold. May you never make your bed out in the cold.
Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.
For me to pretend I'm the keeper of the small town mentality or that's all I'm interested in is wrong.
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.