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I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.
Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.
I wanted to have a home where I could go home and unlock my door and go in and be settled. I was tired of being a gypsy.
All our fans have great energy, and that's where we get our energy to perform. They know how to have fun with our music.
If anyone is ever rude to you, then there's no need to hang out with them! Just find the people that make you feel good.
And in the morning when the sun rise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.
Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.
I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.
I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.
I am only as good as my last song. Hits are a pension, but I don't want to rest on those songs. I want to have a future.
Failure and success are part of the same seed. If you don't embrace your failure, you never really know what success is.
When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
Many musicals you can take and throw in the garbage can because no one took the time to write a song you can care about.
The fact is, for the first 10 years I toured as a solo artist, I wasn't playing any of the songs I didn't write or sing.
I love heels. I remember the first time I saw a pair of heels my mum said: 'You're not wearing those. They're too high!'
I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.
Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.
Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.
I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.
People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.
I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?
I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.
If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.
In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week.
Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.
There is always one or a few artists who appeal to all sort of people, and, of course, I want to be one of those people.
I saw you dancing out the ocean Running fast along the sand A spirit born of earth and water Fire flying from your hands
I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.
Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.
I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.
I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen
If I don't agree with something, I let people know, and it occasionally leads to tension. But I usually iron things out.
My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong and feisty but still classic.
I think the lesson that I learnt very early on was to listen to people you work with, because you're all in it together.
I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.
To get nominated, and a lot of people get nominated and say they're glad to be nominated but I wanna win! I want to win!
Michael Jackson is the greatest musical influence on me. He's my man. Musically, he is the one artist I want to be like.
Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.
I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.
You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.
I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?
Remember to enjoy everything. The things that feel good, the things that hurt. It’s all gonna make you better. Stronger.
Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away.
It's a matter of people closing their eyes and opening their ears. If people are able to do that, then music is ageless.
Vegas, when we go on tour, is one of the hottest spots for not only people in the United States, but international fans.
As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right.
Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.
Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.