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If some people don't like funk music then it's just the wrong time for them. They will get it. It's addictive.
It's strange to think that I can go places and people want to hear my music. I guess that's all I ever wanted.
Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove.
No use complaining, don't you worry, don't you wine. Cause if you get it wrong, you'll get it right next time.
In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.
I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood.
Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe?
My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.
If there is any truth to reincarnation, this must be my first trip through, 'cause I don't recognize anything.
Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.
There's hope. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. You better thank God for that.
I like when a teenager comes and talks to me on the street. I've been through a lot and I have a lot to share.
Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a guitar
I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.
Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.
But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.
The back story of a songwriter isn't important to me - I don't listen to music needing to know who the guy is.
Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales. Now we make records to promote tour dates.
Some things are sent to test us. Clearly you must be good at problem solving if you are being set tough exams.
I like not having to worry about paying the bills, but I have to watch myself because I don't come from money.
I need enough room to eventually throw a baseball with a child; that's all the yard I need. That's all I want.
To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.
I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.
The love and pride that I feel from my Indian fan base make every new performance in India unique and special.
When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.
If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.
I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.
What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.
When you get a jean for a larger girl, you have to have them tailored for you. Tailoring is indeed everything.
I like a man who smells good. Puts on cologne; lotions his body. It keeps me wanting. I like feeling that way.
I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.
I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.
The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches.
In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.
Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.
Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.
And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.
It would be nice to garner new fans and make it a success - and success is relevant, we already know all that.
I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.
I grew up in Harrow, London, with two sisters. I am the middle child and a natural ginger, so fiery by nature.
I'm enjoying doing research, to get better at the guitar, to get better at rhyming. That's an essential skill.
From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.
My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.
It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.
Einstein said 'your imagination is more important than intelligence,' and I have a very, very big imagination.
I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.