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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.
The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.
I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.
When you’re young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.
Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.
I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.
Everyone thinks I like to sleep. It's not that I like to sleep, it's that I don't like to get up! There is a difference.
I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.
I feel like I've got far more gay fans in America... Maybe they caught wind that I have a cute Jewish brother who's gay.
You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.
I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! If I had had the money I wouldn't have spent it on shit like that.
Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
Yeah, early '71 is when I got my record contract. I had a record come out by August of '71. Things happened really fast.
I'm kind of like the Lone Ranger or Batman. I can just go to my mansion and jump out in my uniform and sing on weekends.
What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?
All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.
I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.
I'm looking over rooftops, and I'm hoping it ain't true, that the same God looks out for them, looks out for me and you.
We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.
I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.
I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!
I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don't like free weights, because I build muscle easily.
I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.
My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets.
I wear [American flag] all the time. It represents my freedom to speak about exactly what I want to, whenever I want to.
My kids don't listen to me when I preach at them. But if I tell them a story they can pull something from, that matters.
All of my surroundings influence my songwriting. It's autobiographical, although I leave enough space so it's relatable.
If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever.
My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.
There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.
I suffer from arachnophobia. I don't mind the tiny spiders so much, it's the ones with their legs covered in thick hair.
I'm quite curvy and I just try and exercise whenever I can. I don't do anything hardcore as I'm just not that dedicated.
Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!
Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.
There's always elements of danger in New York but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
Bad girl, drunk by six, kissing someone else's lips. Smoked to many cigarettes today, I'm not happy when I act this way.
I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do.
I definitely see myself making classic R&B records with somewhat of a trendy vibe to it. I definitely wouldn't say trap.
Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?
It's sad that a lot of identities are lost and a lot of careers are lost because there's sort of a clone thing going on.
I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.
In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.
Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!
I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.