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I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand, I won't listen.
Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly fresh.
I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.
I love you, always forever Near and far, close and together Everywhere, I will be with you Everything, I will do for you.
The locals are always going to want the traditions to stay alive. I just hope we can do something about them politicians.
I can show you who's the man Let me show you with my hands I just want you close to me I'll get you wet Just wait and see
I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.
I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
I have a pair of blue pants that were my favorite for a while and were a part of my show uniform - every night, you know.
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.
I couldn't just hand in any old rubbish - I can't go on tour and sing something for three years if I don't believe in it.
A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life.
'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.
Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it.
How you ever gonna know if you're the best? How you ever gonna know what you believe in, if you don't put it to the test?
I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.
In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.
My daughter is almost a young lady. She's going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day-in and day-out.
I'd been doing shows, but I slowed down because I had a daughter and got to spend some time having more of a family life.
I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.
Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.
No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.
I don't sit back and count up what I've done. There's just always something else to do. There's always a challenge ahead.
You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.
I used to like girls with nice hands and legs, but now, as long as she loves me and doesn't leave me, that would be fine.
I literally have a bowl of Jolly Ranchers sitting in my studio. You can just pop those things in. They're really amazing.
As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.
I don't need awards to show me how successful I am or to prove to me that I'm doing a good thing and that I'm succeeding.
A lot of my writing is done on the road so I can take the music on my iPod, work out a melody then record it into Cubase.
I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.
I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.
I just love Fortitude Valley, I love all of it. It is such a progressive hub, it feels like the East Village of New York.
I can't eat before I go onstage because I've learnt that burping on stage isn't a good thing. It's all about acid reflux.
We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable.
I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.
Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.
Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.
The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.
I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning 'full of the spirit.' I do believe that it comes to you.
I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.
I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.
It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.
When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.
Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.
I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.
Queen were the first western band I got hooked on. I got a bootleg - there was hardly any legal buying of CDs in Georgia.
I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who's, like, the phantom rapper.