I prefer someone who is not overly good-looking. If he's too good-looking, I would feel that he doesn't belong to me.

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.

I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.

Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will.

I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay.

I've got my fanbase; I believe in my music; I believe in my vision... And ain't no-one gonna stop me from doing that!

All music industry places are the same, really. They have the same dynamics and the same concerns and the same needs.

I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach

Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo. But it's a real beauty, a Mexican cutie, how it got here I haven't a clue.

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.

The weirdest thing about Hillary Clinton's email 'scandal' is finding out some of our senators still don't use email.

I always figured I would live long enough to see a black president. The movies predicted it. Usually, Morgan Freeman.

I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I'm 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith.

I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.

Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.

I wolf food down like you've never seen. For some reason, I have no self-control when it comes to the pace of eating.

I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

I want to show you that you can be funny and hot. You can drink and read. People are still getting used to what I am.

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.

Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media.

I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.

This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.

... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.

And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

I was raised on Marvin Gaye. Before I knew Babyface or anyone else, I knew Marvin Gaye. My mother played Marvin Gaye.

I want to create music that moves me, not just music that is going to get me famous or make someone at a label happy.

I think there are just as many assholes meeting the old-fashioned way as there are meeting in the new hookup culture.

If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.

Everything looks true written down. What you read in National Enquirer and News Of The World looks true written down.

I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.

Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you've done to other people.

I think I actually did write about love because I kind of had a fear of it, like we all do, nobody wants to get hurt.

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