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I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.
Los Angeles is a melting pot for all different cultures and creativity. It's really a ground to cultivate artists.
I'm lucky in the sense that I can write wherever I am - on the bus, in the hotel room, backstage, sitting at home.
Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.
The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.
I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely.
All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.
I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.
If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car!
I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.
You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you.
Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
I'm so happy that everything worked out and Princess allowed me to come into her life and be the best man for her.
You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going.
I'd love to go and camp out and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere and see how long I could live and survive.
My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos.
Every time I'm preparing a new production, I'm trying to reinvent my style and offer the audience several choices.
All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.
'Prisoner' is not a direct 'I've just been divorced' album, although that fire is burning very well on the record.
For me, how the person with me feels is more important than how I feel. I like making people around me feel happy.
You always hear how female artists don't get along, how they hate each other - but that hasn't been my experience.
Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.
Yes, it's true, I have bought a helicopter. I really like it. I can't fly it, but I plan to get a licence one day.
Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that.
At its best, American music is the soundtrack of our long - and often painful - march toward a more perfect union.
I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.
The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.
At 15, saying I wanted to do a reggae album after growing up in a snazzy house in Houston - it was kind of random.
Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.
But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.
If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.
I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.
I love when things that I'm involved in really matter and when people like me back and don't just think I'm corny.
I love Obama, and I just want to reiterate it again to everyone from every hilltop and every mountain: I love him!
You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
People don't take you seriously if you scream, if you raise your voice, especially when you're a 19-year-old girl.
And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.
The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.
I'm not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18.
If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.
All those emotions spanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealously, all those feelings are red.
Got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane. But I got a blank space baby, and I'll write your name.
I think I’ve developed this pattern of running away when it comes time to fall in love and stay in a relationship.
Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.
I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.
It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.