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Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.
I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.
Live in the moment. Feel everything you want to feel. And maybe have a couple of drinks if you're nervous, I guess.
I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.
I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.
We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
I stroke it to the East, and I stroke it to the West, and I stroke it to the woman that I love best. I be strokin'.
YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although its harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.
I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.
As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything.
I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.
I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different.
I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.
I grew up listening to Nirvana, and then went through some bad 90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.
I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.
I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
In Glendale, where I live, there's a street called Broadway. The bottoms of the light posts have swastikas on them.
You put too many songs on your record, and it ends up like a family with too many kids: some of them get neglected.
When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated
You have to think about how you're going to present yourself and want people, wanna show your stuff and who you are
It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.
Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.
I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10.
I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day.
Years ago when I first started being a big star I had fans that were fanatical. It was when "Jolene" was a big hit.
My guiltiest pleasure is... chocolates with strawberry cream and trashy television - 'Geordie Shore,' 'Katie,' etc.
There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.
Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.
Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.
Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. Til what we put off til tomorrow has now become today.
There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
With Thobbing Gristle, that era from '75 to '81 was a period when the politics of the time demanded anger and rage.
It turns out that there's a huge community of African-American musicians whose main influence is Throbbing Gristle.
The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.
When Lady Gaga wears a meat dress, it's meant to be controversial, but then it turns into money, and it's all fine.
I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.
Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life
Of course in Miami, not denouncing Fidel Castro at every turn is almost as bad as saying Gloria Estefan can't sing.
I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.
Whether you’re gay, straight, divorced, on drugs, a prostitute… I don’t care. Be who you are and love who you want.
Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.
I'm a woman with a mission. I've learned to believe in myself, my vision and to do things the way I want them done.
It's harder to put yourself in a place where you could easily be seen as a fake. But that's more interesting to me.
Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
I'm always very interested in playing in front of different kinds of audiences. It always affects the way you play.
I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.