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I love heavy-metal music more than anything in the world, but I'm equally drawn to Michael Buble or Michael Feinstein.
Yeah, I'll pay your cab fare home, you can even use my best cologne, just don't be here in the morning when I wake up.
I feel more like an artist than a pop star, and I accidentally fell into what I do. Everything was just an experiment.
If they were siblings, 'Hairless Toys' would be the nice child, and 'Take Her Up to Monto' is more of a problem child.
I don't like my voice, and I don't enjoy my singing voice; I do what I do to bring pleasure and diversion to the fans.
I think people look at me different when they see I'm dressed well. They pay attention. They know I'm about something.
For me, it's always an organic process. I don't personally reach out to artists without the music being created first.
I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.
Now's the time to take a chance, come on we've gotta make a stand. What do we have to lose the choice is in our hands.
A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.
You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.
I don't think about success to be famous, because I've done that at the highest level, but it's all about my children.
I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It's my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot.
I wanna grow and develop as an artist, and I feel like different kinds of collaborations can only help me in that way.
I can't believe how fast things have happened, and I'm just so honored that people are able to look to me as a leader.
I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.
I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.
I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.
You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love.
Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.
It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.
When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways.
To me, it was about finding new opportunities. I know my voice touches people. It has for years. I can't give that up.
I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.
I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard
The beginning of love is all about the butterflies, but the end of it is when you can't get out of bed in the morning.
People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.
Given that everyone is giving you their own opinion about him, I think the only opinion you should listen to is yours.
You realize the bad guy isn't wearing a black cape or easy to spot; he's funny, makes you laugh, and has perfect hair.
I feel like my dating life has become a national pastime, and Im not comfortable providing that entertainment anymore.
There are beautiful things about both being in love and being out of love. I just think you have to find those things.
Singing is still the important thing to me. I love singing. I wouldn't be putting myself through all this if I didn't.
My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
All I want is moonlight, with you there inside of me, all night, doing it again and again. You know I want you so bad.
I felt that putting my all into the relationship would have taken me away from my career. And I couldn't do that then.
I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.
When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.
Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'
I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.
I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.
I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.
Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.
I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.
I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.