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As far as Rap goes Tupac was my favorite, I used to sing some of his songs in my set before I ever met his dad.
The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.
Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.
Michael Jackson had a stable vision. He had a strong message, not only pop. People just fainted at his concert.
I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.
Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'
No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!
The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.
A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children.
I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.
You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
Don't say you love somebody and then change your mind ... Love isn't like picking what movie you want to watch.
I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.
Growing up, all my friends used to say 'Naturi, you are so dramatic!' and I would think to myself, 'Thank you!'
Sexy as she wanna be and she dancing next so close to me. I said please excuse, you steppin on expensive shoes.
The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.
A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time.
Music has always been an incredibly significant part of my life and a meaningful way in which I express myself.
I used to sort of take the phone off the hook, you know, put my feet up and watch the TV until it was all over.
I write songs that mean something to me because I want to connect with people and make them feel something too.
I'm now 23 and feel like it's been a full 'crash course' in the music industry - I've only just found my sound.
I get on really well with Jake Gosling, who is a great producer, and I have written a song with Fraser T Smith.
That's the mark of a really great actor, when he can make you feel the emotion without having to search for it.
Sometimes I want to hear something fun to cook or bake to; other times, I need specific songs to to lift me up.
Its pretty humbling, because I go back to the places where I used to play for 13 people, and now there's 1,500.
You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.
We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible.
The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.
The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.
The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings.
I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success
I'm certainly not the only person to have gone through a divorce. I'm not the only person who's had heartbreak.
Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation
Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.
Charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.
Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word - slavery. I would tell any young artist... don't sign.
When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.
He was good in business, but there was business left to do. He never said he loved me, guess he thought I knew.
I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.
I feel like people are just waiting for me to fail, so I have to be careful what decisions I make in my career.
I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.
As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.
I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight
Some songs are dead easy, and others can be quite challenging. Other times, you just have to put it in the bin.
I think there are ghosts. I haven't seen or heard anything. I've definitely felt something, but it's not scary.
I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.
I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger
I woke up in a barnyard when I heard a farmer shout. Get away, boy, from my daughter, then a shot gun rang out.