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Come around, feel the sound. Know you make my heart pound. Fill me up, bring me down; when I hear your sound.
Before I was in Girls Aloud, I wanted to be a nanny. But then Girls Aloud started and that ruined that dream!
I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.
I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.
When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it.
I don't believe in being mean to anyone. I'm a really peaceful person. That's something I get from my family.
When I'm [playing] a character, I can look at it and know it's not me and not be concerned with how it looks.
I guess I'm rather self-destructive, and I like to give other people who are self-destructive a song to sing.
I genuinely have no eating problem. I eat so much food. I think there's a lot of girls who are similar to me.
I'm always chipping away at myself, fine-tuning the music that I want to do and the influence I want to have.
Over the years with me maturing as an artist and as a person, I really learned to keep things in perspective.
The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.
I went through a phase of buying a lot of masks, as anyone who has been to a party at the house will testify.
Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk."
One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.
I haven't always made all of the right decisions from a career perspective, but things worked out in the end.
If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.
What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.
I believe there's 31 flavors to be tasted. . . I'm just living my life. I don't want to be your kind of good.
I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.
Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.
It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.
I really don't chase songs. I get in the studio, I know what I gotta do; I'm pretty much programmed to do it.
I'm with expanding in my culture, from the Dominican Republic all the way to Cape Verde. Please believe that.
What I loved with Billie Holiday is she had a good way of parlaying the sorrow with a positive musical twist.
Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.
Originally, I thought of being a photographer and nearly went to art school, but I got a record deal instead.
Man, I loved The Smiths so much. I thought they looked awesome, and Morrissey had hearing aids like my Papaw.
I go straight for Seinfeld, Modern Family, Friends, and Golden Girls. Those are my pillars of strength on TV.
So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?
I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat.
I have spent my whole career worrying that the big bad pop monster was going to eat me when I wasn't looking.
When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.
American pop group N'SYNC's. I listened to it endlessly in my dad's car. This also made me wanna be a singer.
I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Freddy Demann (Shakira's Manager) is a man that knows the world of music. And I know that I am in good hands.
I'm just a consequence of the great musical momentum and the great changes we are going through in the world.
I like fragrances that have some sweetness to them. All three I have developed have that as a common element.
When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of?
Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.
I'm nervous performing because it's such a weird thing to do, standing on stage demanding people's attention.
I don't like age barriers. I don't like when people treat you differently when they find out how old you are.
You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.
There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people.
It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.
I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
I'm grateful for the road. It gets me in shape. I feel like I'm 25 years old after ther first or second week.
It's not the subject that's cliché; it's cliché or not. But in fact, this is the way you're talking about it.