Your personal brand is a promise to your clients... a promise of quality, consistency, competency, and reliability.

I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like an athlete.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

The thing that is most conducive of that better life for all is love, acceptance, understanding and being yourself.

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

I think I've finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.

I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue.

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.

I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.

The thing about doing gigs is you make music, and then it is gone and that is being watched by thousands of people.

I've always dreamed that love would be effortlessLike a pedal falling to the ground; a dreamer following his dream.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.

I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night.

I think if you just travel in general, it allows you to step outside of yourself and whatever you're familiar with.

Bad things happen everyday but you're not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don't think about them.

Growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day.

I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.

I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.

I'm trying to stay as healthy as possible but there's no pressure to be really skinny. No. That's just a bit wrong.

The only way to get vegetables at a diner late night is to order the omelette. A feta cheese and broccoli omelette.

My mum used to listen to Motown. Diana Ross was my first singing teacher, really. I'd just sing along all the time.

My mother died, and I couldn't stand to look at her bedroom any more. I'd get sick. I've always been a momma's boy.

If I'm going to dress up, I like things that are quite long and classic. I like feeling dressed up and like a lady.

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

I think my mom just filled me with confidence. I just thought I was the best at everything. Like any mother really.

I'm always coming up with ideas that have been inspired by memories, everyday life and this and that and the other.

I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.

I think I had a lot of bad hair moments. In the early 80's just sometimes I wore purple lipstick or green lipstick.

My daughter is a fan of mine but she doesn't want to be too obvious about it because I'm her mum and it's not cool.

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.

Robin [Williams], he's pretty dynamic. I had a lot of fun but I also felt like there was no onus on me to be funny.

I'm always more interested in trying things that will push me, and I don't care if I fall flat on my face doing it.

There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible.

What I hate is that not many people admit to having a big ego, but you have to - and there's nothing wrong with it.

I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

I can't ignore someone that's in need or is hurting. How can people just turn their heads from something like that.

I don't think I'm better than other people, I think I'm different from other people, because I do different things.

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