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'I'm a Celebrity' has been an amazing ride, and I'm walking out of here with some amazing friendships. It's been awesome.
I enjoy working out. I really do. I like the way my heart gets pumping, and sweaty, and I feel challenged; I feel strong.
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't.
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.
You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
A lot of people question my image and why I do what I do, and the answer is because this is how I want to present myself.
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.
I simply find it boring to walk around like everybody else. I find it really great to stand out and do something special.
We have so much inspiration. It's everywhere... So I always have a pen with me and a laptop, and I write everything down.
Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.
I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.
Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.
AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.
The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.
I think that's the fascinating thing about the '70s is that it turns out it was quite a dark decade. But, like, who knew?
The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.'
Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.
Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.
I think I'd make a loving, caring, understanding boyfriend, who's in touch with his emotions. Or at least I'd like to be.
It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.
If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.
Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.
Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.
We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.
Just because I might be bored doesn't mean I have to look boring. I'd rather look fabulous, like I'm having a great time.
My best friend from college engineered my record. He and I keep in touch on just a purely one-music-fan-to-another basis.
When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.
I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.
Once I faced the fact I was going to deal with illness for the rest of my life, I got on with what I really wanted to do.
To some extent, I've always felt that the music should be the thing that creates the emotion in you, rather than a video.
I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.
My mom is one of those women... she don't take no mess. She is very vocal about what she wants and what she doesn't want.
I want to break that typical Asian female stereotype. There's this standard where they're all calm. I want to break that.
I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.
You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands. The stands America's taken are the reason that you can.
I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.
I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object and to this day it mystifies me.
Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.
System of a Down is the music that I wanted to buy but couldn't find at the store. It's the band I wanted to be a fan of.
The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.
I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.
In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.
So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.
Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.