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I can't help what I sound like. What I sound like is what i am. You know? I cannot be anything other that what I am.
I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.
I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.
It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.
We are looking at these rock 'n' roll campers, and we know what is going on in their minds because we've been there.
I passed out in our front yard. But honey, don't turn out the light, cause I think I'm in the mood for love tonight.
Always be your husband's best friend, make him laugh and give him a little bit of freedom - you can't suffocate him.
I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.
The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'
I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it's something I am really good at.
All this is a dream to me. Everything, the applause, the fans asking for autographs, the trips, all that is a dream.
I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.
It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.
I love to shake my hips, my hair, and my boobs. It's all about having fun and sharing your spirit with other people.
I just think that it's very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.
Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.
I love being domestic: making coffee, just putting on a record, and just sitting, not doing anything. It's so great.
Rock stars should be able to tune their own guitars, apply their own eyeliner, and pick out their own leather pants.
I'm tortured because I care. I'm always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care.
What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.
I feel that I was a useful contributor to society, and that I couldn't be a contributor to society in any other way.
The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.
I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.
If I had to define 'sexy' now, as Disney as it sounds, I would have to say it's about complete and utter confidence.
I'm surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys.
Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.
I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.
That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.
My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.
You never imagine that when you say hello to someone and you fall in love, that some day you'll have to say goodbye.
I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.
The only thing I can't control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can't control that, I have to let it go.
Don't find love, let it find you. It's called falling in love because you don't force yourself to fall, you just do.
I've never felt like there's just one way to be beautiful. Tall or short, straight hair or curly, it doesn't matter.
You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after.
I've never been fascinated by the party lifestyle. Penciling in a night to get wasted is not something I want to do.
I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent.
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.'
You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.
I realized that what was most important to me was following my own path, and not the one laid down for me by others.
I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.
Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.
If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.
I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.
My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.
My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.