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I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
I needed to get into a nightclub and stand up and present the material that way. I needed to present it live.
I have a radio show for the Sirius Satellite Radio Network. It's an interview show. It's called The Spectrum.
I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.
I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.
What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.
I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes
I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.
I haven't been the best boyfriend or husband, and that means I don't get to spend every day with my daughter.
It's midnight Cinderella, but don't worry none. Cause I'm Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party's just begun.
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.
My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.
There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.
This is my dream and I'm living it. I've never wanted to do anything else except write songs and perform them
Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.
I learn every day what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel empowered.
It's so cool to hear these DJs and younger artists that are coming around be like, 'Wow, we love your music.'
Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.
I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know?
When the five of our voices come together, there is a special something there. That is something that I know.
Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.
Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.
I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.
For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.
I'm fairly specific about what I like to wear and looks are important to me, just like they are to everybody.
I've never been in that position in my life, where I hate a celebrity so much that I want to call them names.
I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.
To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.
It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.
I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now.
I was a mailman walking in the snow six days a week, 12-hour days. Every two weeks, I'd get a check for $228.
I don't concern myself with where I fit in. I just keep my head down and keep doing whatever it is I'm going.
People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.
I was kind of shy as a lad, and a lot of things that made me laugh, I found, did not make other people laugh.
I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.
Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed.
The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.
I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.
The Georgians will treat you like royalty, and the odds are you'll do a lot of eating, drinking and toasting.
I've started making my wardrobe a uniform: I find that the fewer options I have, the better my state of mind.
Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.
Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.
When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.