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It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.
My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
Every time I get photographed, it's the legs. So I've insured them for a lot, for £5 million each. Is that enough?
I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive.
I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.
I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.
If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.
I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.
I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.
I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.
The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.
I enjoy being able to do different kinds of music, not just to be eclectic but because those are all a part of me.
Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.
Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.
I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.
I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children
When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.
There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.
I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.
Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.
I start the day off with a pot of coffee, and I read all the newspapers online, then I delve around for new music.
I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.
I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.
If you're going to document your own journey, the jokes work better in the first person, just like the stories do.
An incredible number of people have raised children who aren't too screwed up. Surely, I won't be the worst at it.
My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.
Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.
You have to have a vision and know that it's worth seeing it through. Other than that, just be true to your heart.
I always want people to realise that whatever I do is a quality product. And that's what's really important to me.
I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.
I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.
I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!
As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.
There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.
I'm like a hermit. Once I'm home, I'm home and when I ride in the car, I don't really listen to the radio as much.
A fan would get an autograph and that was that. If we didn't tour again for five years, we wouldn't remember them.
Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?
I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.
You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.
I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.
People thought we were crazy for starting a record company. They really thought I was shooting myself in the foot.
When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.
My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds.
I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely sensible.
Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.
My biggest crush when I was 13 was Leonardo DiCaprio. After I watched 'Titanic' I was completely in love with him.