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Falling in love isn't as easy as it seems when you've seen love crash and burn right in front of your eyes.
I don't really think you can ever stop making new friends or learning about as many new things as possible.
In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
Everything happens the way it's supposed to because it's just like cavemen - you evolve and grow and learn.
'Waterfalls' spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.
I think that if people are having trouble communicating with one another, the least they can do is SHUT UP.
I really want to come back! I definitely want to come back. Some of my fondest memories are in New Zealand.
Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
I've kind of touched on the youth generation, what the concept of fame, what does it actually, really mean.
I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.
The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart
That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.
I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.
I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.
The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.
I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.
It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.
My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.
There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.
It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.
Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.
I like pin-up girls. I'm more of a boy than a girl. I'm not a lesbian, though - not before a sambuca anyway.
People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.
You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.
Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.
I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.
Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.
I use Dr. Organic Snail Gel, which is great for keeping blemishes at bay and also helping reduce fine lines.
My favourite hangouts are the Mexican restaurant Crazy Homies and the Electric Cinema, both in Notting Hill.
When you start to realize life isn't fair, what do you do: curl up and die or fight every second of the way?
There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.
If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.
When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.
It's the bane of my life and my existence, people telling me to be a little more succinct with what I write.