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It was something I enjoyed doing and decided to give it a couple years, though I'm not making a lot of money now either!
I'm hoping to knock down the walls and broaden the lane a little bit more for music that's pop music at the heart of it.
True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.
Jump start my kaleidoscope heart, Love to watch the colors fade, They may not make sense, But they sure as hell made me.
The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
Just getting older, you stop caring what other people think, but also, you know who you are, and you know what you want.
As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.
I'm not a big fan of trying to be a sex symbol or any of that stuff because I really like the music to speak for itself.
There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.
At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
Mary had a little sheep, With the sheep she went to sleep. The sheep turned out to be a ram, And Mary had a little lamb.
People love Axl [Rose] with the original band, they love him on his own but they want to see him with the original guys.
The prime minister in Belgium gave our album to Barack Obama. I was really surprised that he decided to give a CD of us.
I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick.
Every day I grapple between 'I'm going to get married' and 'I'm going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.'
I always wanted to be a Klingon princess. They were so pretty, and their hair was fire. My hair is Klingon, I feel like.
They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.
My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.
A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.
You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don't understand you, you have to have more fun than they do.
Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep.
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
When we're trying to move on, the moments we go back to aren't dull ones. They're the big moments that meant everything.
Appreciate what you have while you have it and the beauty in what’s there right now and try to preserve it for tomorrow.
My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places.
It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.
When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?
I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.
I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.
I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.
As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.
If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.
It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.
There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.
Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.
Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.
When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.
A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.
i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world
I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.
When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.
Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.