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I don't know if you've ever shown anyone your work before you're done with it, but it can be very uncomfortable.
I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all kinds of music.
Being a singer, I can easily break facial extremities, but breaking my nose in Luxembourg was extremely painful.
My dad is a children's singer. His name is Red Grammer. He's literally one of the happiest people on the planet.
If you’re not angry, then you’re just stupid, you don’t care. How else can you react when something’s so unfair?
Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.
Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.
You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.
For me, music is a magical life force that has the ability to make me cry, pick me up, and take me back in time.
I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.
I've never really been into social media - I don't have a Facebook; I don't do Twitter or Instagram or anything.
A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.
The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It's a morning yearning.
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.
Just because people don't meet you doesn't mean they're not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
'Ready, Set, Go' is kind of our story. It's about going for your dream and not being afraid to start a new life.
We've given up the idea that a guitar must always and everywhere be readily available just because we're a band.
There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
There is nothing wrong with being afraid - but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.
The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.
It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now.
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything
I look back now, and most of the drama in my life was self-inflicted. I don't need to make up so much drama now.
Anytime you're in West Virginia or near it, and you sing, 'Take Me Home, Country Roads,' it's a sight to behold.
I wanted to be Buck Owens and Bill Anderson and Roger Miller. With a higher-resolution video screen. And lasers.
I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.
Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It's all I know.
My dad was just the king of finding these little spots for us to stay that we should never have been staying at.
He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.
You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude.
I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.
The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.
I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.
I'm always excited to make the next album because I definitely get sick of my work the second it gets out there.
Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.
I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.
I've had my ups. I've had my downs, but I've been able to push through every obstacle that's been thrown my way.
When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say?
When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.
Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.
I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.
Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.
If I can be an advocate for people to get healthy that's good, and it's not about just needing to go to the gym.
Life is all about how things rough up against you and how you see them and the vantage point you have from them.
I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.
My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.