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We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.
Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.
I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.
I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.
You've had all that punk and New Wave thing, and I think people have really got sick up to here with it. I know I have.
Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.
Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.
There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.
I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to try.
For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.
I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
So often, you don't get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you're on set.
All of a sudden you're like the Bin Laden of America. Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows what I'm going through.
I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.
Raydiation is more mature, reveals more about me personally and focuses on singing and songs that people can relate to.
They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes.
I'd definitely like more kids when I'm older. And I think I'm like every woman in that I'd like to get married one day.
I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.
I think, even in society, people get so caught up in how they look. I think I let that go, and I've learnt to not care.
My mum is a lovely woman, so strong but so kind and compassionate. She brought us up to be proud, loving and forgiving.
God is a wild man...should you encounter him...hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it.
Beyoncé built her f–king foundation from the bottom. I think that’s the exact career every female artist wants to have.
Jessie J is a great, great girl. I'm a friend and have always been a fan of hers. I'm happy to see her doing her thing.
To have Judas Priest together? It's a real adventure, and we always feel excited when it's time to create a new record.
Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.
If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.
I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.
I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.
I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.
I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.
I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.
I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.
There are a lot of people who don't think girl groups last very long, but Girls' Generation wants to break that theory.
As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
The music, of course, is important, but it's the energy that I bring to it that I think the public appreciate the most.
I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn't do anything internationally - it was all in Ireland.
I'm not the sad sack that people might think I am. But I think that if I didn't write and perform, I probably would be.
We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.
You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it's timeless. That's what I want.
I'd say some of my earliest scent memories are from home - just things that were around my house, and my mom's cooking.
I'm not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they're super-relatable.
As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.
I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.
To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.
What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.
Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do it.
Beauty is everything and beauty is within, however, if you don't feel good on the outside, then you will not look good.
Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
You have to able to make fun of yourself. Don't take things too seriously and when people make fun of you, laugh at it.